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The National Honor Society (NHS) is one of the oldest, largest, and most widely recognized cocurricular student organizations in American high schools, with 1.4 million members. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The purpose of the NHS is to create enthusiasm for scholarship, to recognize outstanding students, to stimulate a desire to render service, to promote ...
The Citadel is a novel by A. J. Cronin, first published in 1937, which was groundbreaking in its treatment of the contentious subject of medical ethics.It has been credited with laying the foundation in Britain for the introduction of the NHS a decade later.
The number of critical cartoons about NHS policy increased from the 1960s, as the NHS faced cuts, and the satire movement emerged in Britain. In December 1960, cartoonist Victor Weisz drew an image for the Evening Standard showing Minister for Health Enoch Powell as a surgeon covered in blood, accusing him of making too many cuts. [ 78 ]
He was behind the introduction of NHS foundation trusts in 2002. He predicts current health secretary Wes Streeting, pictured, will go ‘further and faster’ than New Labour (PA Wire)
The NHS is the largest employer in Europe, with one in every 25 adults in England working for the NHS. [46] As of February 2023, NHS England employed 1.4 million staff. [ 47 ] Nursing staff accounted for the largest cohort at more than 330,000 employees, followed by clinical support staff at 290,000, scientific and technical staff at 163,000 ...
IN 2005 an electronic booking service known as Choose and Book was introduced across the NHS in England. This service enabled GPs and patients to shortlist a list of clinically appropriate hospitals for the patient to choose from, and lets the patient make appointments with hospitals either online or over the phone.
Aneurin Bevan, the former Minister of Health who founded the NHS, issued a statement on 1 February 1952 condemning the Act: I have just been studying the new National Health Service Bill. If this is carried into law it means that the free Health Service is dead. The present charges on dentures and spectacles were to end in 1954.
These 24 books present a wide array of perspectives on the role of First Lady—from memoirs by Julia Grant, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Michelle Obama, to biographies on Jackie Kennedy, Barbara Bush ...