This is a programme run by a PCT collaborative with a lead PCT to provide general preventive or advisory services to groups of the population, or specific services to PATIENTS with identified needs or conditions.

HEALTH PROGRAMMES are hierarchically structured to meet, at least, the mandatory accounting requirements defined by PROGRAMME HEADING CODES and other HEALTH PROGRAMMES about which data are required centrally.

Each HEALTH PROGRAMME has a sub-type of STRUCTURED PROGRAMME or NURSING IN THE COMMUNITY PROGRAMME.

This class is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
plural	HEALTH PROGRAMMES