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The National Health Service Act 1946 (9 & 10 Geo. 6. c. 81) came into effect on 5 July 1948 and created the National Health Service in England and Wales thus being the first implementation of the Beveridge model.
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 ...
Jane Frances Cummings CBE is a former Chief Nursing Officer for England, formerly at the Department of Health and subsequently at NHS England.. In November 2013 she was interviewed about the demand for safe staffing levels in NHS hospitals and told ITV Daybreak: "The most important thing to do is to use evidence to determine what the staffing levels should be.
[5] [6] The scheme did not survive long enough to permit proper evaluation. As Rudolf Klein says "We rarely allow enough time to evaluate pilot, let alone national, policies". but it enabled the incoming government to introduce primary care groups — "thereby universalising fundholding while repudiating the concept."
On August 12, 2009, Palin said "the elderly and ailing would be coerced into accepting minimal end-of-life care to reduce health care costs" [31] [65] and charged on Twitter that Britain's National Health Service (NHS) was an evil "death panel", leading to so many replies from British citizens defending the NHS that Twitter crashed. [67]
John Lorimer Campbell [5] grew up primarily in the Stanwix district of Carlisle. [6] He holds a diploma in nursing from the University of London, a BSc in biology from the Open University, an MSc in health science from the University of Lancaster, and a Ph.D. in nursing from the University of Bolton. [6]
Philip James Hammond (born 1 January 1962) is a British physician, broadcaster, comedian and commentator on health issues in the United Kingdom. He is best known for his humorous commentary on the National Health Service.
The concept has gained support in the NHS organisations of the United Kingdom as well as in Ireland [2] and the Netherlands [3] and forms part of the NHS Long Term Plan. The referral mechanisms, target groups, services offered through social prescribing vary across settings.