Health management information consortium (HMIC) Combines Department of Health's Library and Information Services (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; service development; and NHS organisation and development.