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The UK and European Union have a long history of reciprocal healthcare agreements. The UK's National Health Service was one of the first universal healthcare systems established anywhere in the world, influencing British dominions such as Australia, which then formed reciprocal agreements for their citizens to receive treatment. [8]
Pre-registration house officer (PRHO), commonly refrerred to as house officer and less commonly as houseman, is a former official term for a grade of junior doctor that was, until 2005, the only job open to medical graduates in the United Kingdom who had just passed their final examinations at medical school and had received their medical degrees. [1]
The National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom, comprising the NHS in England, NHS Scotland and NHS Wales. Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland was created separately and is often locally referred to as "the NHS". [ 2 ]
A medical certificate or doctor's certificate [1] [2] is a written statement from a physician or another medically qualified health care provider which attests to the result of a medical examination of a patient. [3] It can serve as a sick note (UK: fit note) (documentation that an employee is unfit for work) or evidence of a health condition. [4]
The NHS Business Services Authority (NHSBSA) is an executive non-departmental public body of the Department of Health and Social Care which provides a number of support services to the National Health Service in England and Wales.
The General Medical Council (GMC) is a public body that maintains the official register of medical practitioners within the United Kingdom.Its chief responsibility is to "protect, promote and maintain the health and safety of the public" by controlling entry to the register, and suspending or removing members when necessary.
It also runs "The NHS Website" (www.nhs.uk, formerly NHS Choices), which is the national website for the NHS in England. NHS Digital has taken on the roles of a number of predecessor bodies including the NHS Information Centre, NHS Connecting for Health, and parts of NHS Direct. The organisation produces more than 260 official and national ...
NHS numbers are the unique numbers allocated in a shared numbering scheme to registered users of the three public health services in England, Wales and the Isle of Man. It is the key to the identification of patients, especially in delivering safe care across provider organisations, and is required in all new software deployed within these National Health Services (NHS).