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National Health Service

[ nash-uh-nl helth sur-vis, nash-nuhl ]

noun

  1. Great Britain’s publicly funded network of healthcare systems: often used in the United Kingdom as an umbrella term that also includes the Health and Social Care of Northern Ireland. : NHS


National Health Service

noun

  1. (in Britain) the system of national medical services since 1948, financed mainly by taxation AbbreviationNHS
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of National Health Service1

First recorded in 1880–85 as a recommendation; established in 1946
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The government has announced NHS England will be abolished to "cut bureaucracy" and reform how the National Health Service is run.

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The National Health Service says a healthy range is between 18.5 and 24.9.

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"I think I've got a hard enough job trying to turn around the National Health Service and social care. She's got to worry about that, she's got to worry about every other public service that's creaking at the seams."

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Starmer had to, during a conference this week about the National Health Service, address Musk’s posts, although he didn’t mention him by name, saying, “Those who are spreading lies and misinformation as far and as wide as possible are not interested in victims. They’re interested in themselves.”

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Prof Buntin said Republican election gains indicate that the US is not about to embrace the alternative - a publicly run scheme like the UK's National Health Service - anytime soon.

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