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The National Health Service (NHS) can be reached on 111 for non-emergency calls (from landlines and mobiles only). In other European countries, the number 116 117 is used for a similar purpose. The NHS has also launched a COVID-19 helpline on 119 so that these calls do not go through the 111 call centre.
111 is a free-to-call single non-emergency number medical helpline operating in England, Scotland and Wales. The 111 phone service has replaced the various non-geographic 0845 rate numbers and is part of each country's National Health Service: in England the service is known as NHS 111; [1] in Scotland, NHS 24; [2] and in Wales, NHS 111 Wales.
People in England [28] and Scotland can access these services by dialling the free-to-call 111 number. Scotland's service is run by NHS24. [29] The telephone number for NHS Direct Wales/Galw Iechyd Cymru [30] was 0845 4647, but the 111 service was rolled out across all areas in 2022. [31]
Nuffield Health Brighton Hospital (independent) – Brighton; Nuffield Health Woking Hospital - Woking [8] Princess Royal Hospital – Haywards Heath, West Sussex; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital – Margate, Kent; Queen Victoria Hospital – East Grinstead, West Sussex; Royal Sussex County Hospital – Brighton
The NHS was established within the differing nations of the United Kingdom through differing legislation, and as such there has never been a singular British healthcare system, instead there are 4 health services in the United Kingdom; NHS England, the NHS Scotland, HSC Northern Ireland and NHS Wales, which were run by the respective UK government ministries for each home nation before falling ...
NHS Direct was the health advice and information service provided by the National Health Service (NHS), established in March 1998. The nurse-led telephone information service provided residents and visitors in England with healthcare advice 24 hours a day, every day of the year through telephone contact on the national non-geographic 0845 46 47 number. [1]
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It became the Ashton-under-Lyne General Hospital on the formation of the National Health Service in 1948 and it became Tameside General Hospital in 1976. Subsequent expansion included the Ladysmith Building opened in 1987 and the Hartshead building which was opened by the Duchess of York in 1989.