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28 unusual facts about National Health Service


Asheridge

Aneurin (Nye) Bevan, Labour Minister responsible for the establishment of the National Health Service and his wife Jennie Lee also a Minister in the same Labour Government and a prime mover in the creation of the Open University, came to live at Wood Farm, Asheridge during the 1950s.

Association of Scientific Workers

The union largely represented laboratory and technical workers in universities, the National Health Service and in chemical and metal manufacturing.

Bradford and Airedale Teaching Primary Care Trust

Bradford and Airedale Teaching Primary Care Trust is the name of the publicly funded healthcare system which serves City of Bradford and Airedale in West Yorkshire and is part of the NHS.

British Indian Psychiatric Association

It currently has 400 psychiatrists of all grades working in NHS and Private sector.

Caroline Lucas

She is a supporter of homeopathy and signed an early day motion in support of its continued funding on the National Health Service sponsored by Conservative MP David Tredinnick.

Confederation of Health Service Employees

The Confederation of Health Service Employees (COHSE) was a United Kingdom trade union representing workers primarily in the National Health Service.

It was founded in 1946 with the merger of the Mental Hospital and Institutional Workers Union and the Hospital and Welfare Services Union, with the aim of having one union to represent workers in the National Health Service on its formation.

Edinburgh BioQuarter

Part of BioQuarter’s purpose is to create new companies based on medical research being undertaken in the NHS and at the University of Edinburgh.

Environmental control device

Environmental control devices may be assessed for and provided by the National Health Service.

Four-hour target in emergency departments

A four-hour target in emergency departments was introduced by the Department of Health for National Health Service acute hospitals in England.

Glyn Webster

From 1981 to 1992, he was a chaplain at the York District Hospital and from 1992 to 1999, he was the Senior Chaplain for the York Health Services NHS Trust.

Local government in London

Health services in London are managed by the national government through the National Health Service, which is controlled and administered in London by a single NHS Strategic Health Authority called NHS London.

Mother and Child Scheme

Regarding healthcare, international trends such as in the National Health Service of the United Kingdom and elsewhere in Europe were noticed by the Irish political system.

National Health Service

Each system operates independently, and is politically accountable to the relevant government: the Scottish Government, Welsh Government, the Northern Ireland Executive, and the UK Government which is responsible for England's NHS.

New Labour, New Life For Britain

cut NHS waiting lists by treating an extra 100,000 patients as a first step by releasing £100 million saved from NHS red tape

NHS Together

NHS Together is a campaign alliance of the health service unions in the United Kingdom and staff associations working with the TUC, which opposes any form of commercial competition with or within the National Health Service.

Nick Fyffe

Fyffe regularly takes part in 'The Sunflower Jam', an annual live music event intended to raise money to provide alternative medicine in National Health Service hospitals.

Otterbourne

Following Southern Water's £20.3 million fine for 'deliberate misreporting' and failing to meet guaranteed standards of service to customers in 2007, the company shut down its use of the Otterbourne building and leased it to two NHS organisations; South Central Ambulance Service and NHS Education South Central.

Rolling paper

Britain's National Health Service has reported that roll-your-own use has more than doubled since 1990, from 11% to 24%.

Telephonetics

Founded in 1993 by Anthony McKay and Bill Burgar (who developed the original software) Telephonetics VIP software is used by multiplex cinema including Odeon and Cineworld as well as NHS Acute Health Trusts including Luton and Dunstable Hospital NHS Trust and Gloucestershire Royal Hospital.

The Cabaret of Dr Caligari

#The Body Politic - an M.P. is introduced to the consequences of eroding the NHS...
It featured John Shrapnel as Mr. Meagre, Adjoa Andoh as Mrs. Meagre, Cassie Macfarlane as the Past, Clarence Smith as the Present and Alan Barker as the Future.

The Sunflower Jam

The aims of the charity are to fund complementary therapists and spiritual healers to work on cancer wards in the British National Health Service.

Tiddington, Warwickshire

Until 2006 there was a National Health Service psychiatric hospital for elderly people located in the village until this merged with the main hospital in Stratford.

United Kingdom general election, 1950

The Conservatives, now having recovered from their heavy election defeat in 1945, accepted most of the nationalisation that had taken place under the Attlee government, (which included the NHS and the mixed economy).

West Cumberland Hospital

In 1957, approval was given to break ground on a new hospital, the first built in England following the creation of the National Health Service.

West Midlands CARE Team

Most personnel work in NHS hospitals in their day-to-day professional life, volunteering spare time to respond with the charity.

Your Very Good Health

Your Very Good Health is a 1948 British animated public information film about the foundation of the National Health Service (NHS).

Z-drug

Z drugs emerged in the last years of the 1980s and early 1990s, with zopiclone (Imovane) approved by the NHS as early as 1989, quickly followed by Sanofi and zolpidem (Ambien).


Choose and Book

Choose and Book (CaB or C&B), is an E-Booking software application which has been introduced to the National Health Service (NHS) in England.

David Courtley

During this period Fujitsu Services has also entrenched its position as the IT services provider of choice for the UK Government, winning several large outsourcing contracts, including those for the Inland Revenue, MOD and large parts of the NHS.

Doctor Finlay

Early storylines include the setting up of the new National Health Service and the modernisation of the medical practice at Arden House, Tannochbrae, Scotland.

Faculty of Medicine, University of Colombo

Dr Balakrishnar Manivannan, FRCP - Consultant Physician, National Health Service and Senior Clinical Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine, University of Oxford

Lennoxtown training centre

The complex is built on former NHS land adjacent to the vacated Lennox Castle Hospital and was designed to replace Celtic's former training ground at Barrowfield.

Little Foundation

On 4 November 2009, Lord Hameed, the charity's president, tabled a motion in the House of Lords asking the Government what measures have been taken to prevent cerebral palsy which now costs the NHS £4 billion every year.

Luan de Burgh

These include the DLA Piper, Rabobank, Oriel Securities, Lloyds Banking Group, BBC, UBS, Citigroup, Allen & Overy, Herbert Smith, BUPA, Shell UK, GSK, National Health Service, Aviva and the University of Surrey.

National Health Action Party

Founded by former MP Dr Richard Taylor and cancer specialist and chair of the NHS Consultants Association Dr Clive Peedell in May 2012, the party seeks to campaign against changes to the English National Health Service.

West Park Hospital

West Park is a modern NHS adult mental health unit situated on the north-western outskirts of Darlington in the West Park development.

Zahida Manzoor

She became a Lecturer before moving on to hold a number of senior positions in the NHS and then the regulation of Legal Services.