medical social worker

1. 1.

   an official in a British hospital who looks after the social and material needs of the patients

   Synonymsalmoner

   Broadersocial worker

Questions about medical social worker

What does medical social worker mean?

medical social worker means "an official in a British hospital who looks after the social and material needs of the patients".

What is another word for medical social worker?

Close synonyms include almoner. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is medical social worker a common word?

medical social worker is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.