HMIC (Health Management Information Consortium) combines DH Data and the Kings Fund Information and Library Service database. With coverage from 1979 it has information on health service policy, management and administration; quality of health services including hospitals, nursing, primary care and public health; the planning, design, construction and maintenance of health service buildings; occupational health; control and regulation of medicines; medical equipment and supplies; social care and personal social services; social care; service development; NHS organisation and development.