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The Health Lottery also re-organised its playing structure to ensure a minimum jackpot of £25,000, and shorten the odds of winning any prize (now 1 in 9.7). [6] In addition, the monthly Mega Raffle was introduced, in which one Health Lottery player wins a guaranteed cash prize of £250,000. [7] The first Mega Raffle was drawn on 1 September 2018.
The National Health Service Lottery was a failed lottery scheme designed to provide funding for the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. [1] The scheme progressed as far as a trial in May 1988, but the scheme was cancelled at the last minute under threat of legal action, and the 43,000 people who took part in the first draw had their money refunded.
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A National Health Service Lottery was piloted in 1988 but cancelled for legal reasons before the first draw. The UK's state-franchised lottery was set up under government licence by the government of John Major in 1993. [8] The National Lottery was franchised to a private operator; the Camelot Group was awarded the franchise on 25 May 1994. [9]
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The Camelot Group companies, of which Camelot UK Lotteries Limited is the UK National Lottery operating subsidiary, are owned by the holding company Premier Lotteries Investments UK Limited. The group's ultimate parent was the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan , a Canadian investment fund until 2023 when Allwyn AG purchased Camelot.
It excluded the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic as data stopped in 2019. The UK was near the bottom of most tables except households who faced catastrophic health spending. [69] A comparative analysis of health care systems in 2010, by The Commonwealth Fund, a left-leaning US health charity, put the NHS second in a study of seven rich countries.
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