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The NHS in Scotland consists of approximately 161,000 employees, 9.2% of whom are medical or dental doctors, 42.9% nurses and midwives, 18.2% administrative services, 3.9% healthcare scientists, and the remaining 25.8% in various other medical services. [10] In the past several years, healthcare costs have been rising in Scotland.
When the NHS was established in July 1948 dental treatment was free. Demand on the service was enormous. About a quarter of the dentists joined the NHS and by November 1948 83% had joined. Dental health in the UK was worse than that of Germany. In the first nine months of the NHS 4.5 million teeth were removed and 4.2 million teeth were filled.
The NHS in Scotland does have some services provided by the NHS in England – such as NHS Business Services Authority, which processes the payment of dental, optical and pharmacy vouchers and negotiates with pharmaceutical suppliers to negotiate prices per-item down. The costs for the medicines consumed is borne by the health board that ...
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The 1952 Act extended prescription charges issued by hospital out-patient departments; enacted further dental charges; enacted charges for hospital appliances and allowed local authorities to charge for the use of day nurseries. [3] People who received national assistance and their dependents were able to reclaim the cost of the prescription.
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 ]
The Scottish Dental Practice Board was created on 1 April 1989. It was previously called the Scottish Dental Estimates Board. It is statutorily responsible for the fees (but not allowances) authorised to dentists by Practitioner Services. [1] A computerised payments system is operated for the board by NHS National Services Scotland. It also ...
However, people may be exempt from charges in various exemption categories. Charges were abolished by NHS Wales in 2007, Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland in 2010 and by NHS Scotland in 2011. In 2010/11, in England, £450 million was raised through these charges, some 0.5% of the total NHS budget. [1]