Secondary Care

Views Updated: Dec 15, 2025

Key Facts

Abbreviation
SC
Pronunciation
/ˈsɛkənˌdɛri kɛr/
Category
Medical
Related Field
British Medicine

Examples in Context

  1. It was also crucial to ensure free access to medicines and provide emergency basic and secondary care.
  2. Such an approach requires monitoring for somatic conditions and demands effective communication between primary and secondary care to provide coherent physical health care.
  3. Exchange of referrals between primary and secondary care providers or labs as well as the medical results of those referral visits
  4. Audit of primary and secondary care as a source of patch test clinic referrals
  5. Eye care services increasingly integrated into primary and secondary health care systems, with a focus on the provision of services that are available, affordable and high quality;

Other meanings of SC