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By the end of the 1970s, the NHS had passed 1,000,000 staff and in 2015 was the world's fifth largest work organisation with 1.7m. Nurses are the largest single group of professionally qualified staff in the NHS, with 306,000 employed in English hospitals and community health services as at December 2020.
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 original three systems were established in ...
Eye care in the United Kingdom. Eye care in the United Kingdom is available through the National Health Service. Eye care in the community is almost entirely provided by optometrists in private practice. Specialist NHS services are provided from a small number of eye hospitals, and their staff often run clinics in general hospitals in their region.
In 2005 the National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom began deployment of electronic health record systems in NHS Trusts. The goal was to have all patients with a centralized electronic health record by 2010. [1] Lorenzo patient record systems were adopted in a number of NHS trusts. While many hospitals acquired electronic patient ...
NHS Scotland ( Scottish Gaelic: SNS na h-Alba ), sometimes styled NHSScotland, is the publicly–funded healthcare system in Scotland and one of the four systems that make up the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. It operates 14 territorial NHS boards across Scotland, supported by seven special non-geographic health boards, and ...
Vision 2020 was based on a plan published by the WHO in 1999, and subsequently superseded by other global action plans from the WHO. [23] The goal of Vision 2020 was to reduce the projected number of blind people in 2020 from 75 million to 25 million, by disease prevention and control, personnel training, eye care infrastructure improvement ...
The NHS Funding Act 2020 (c. 5) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that sets out the funding for NHS England from 2021 to 2024 that the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care must allot to the respective trusts. [1] This form part of the Government's NHS long-term plan and puts the Chancellor of the Exchequer under a ...
NHS England commissioned a review in 2020 into events at the trust after whistleblowers raised numerous concerns over a research project with pharmaceutical giant Roche. The review, led by Angela Schofield, chair of Harrogate and District NHS Foundation Trust described the trust's research division as “ineffective” and said it had ...