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1. NHS

   The National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). Since 1948, they have been funded out of general taxation. There are three systems which are referred to using the "NHS" name (NHS 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". The four systems were established in 1948 as part of major social reforms following the Second World War. The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care. In England, NHS patients have to pay prescription charges; some, such as those aged over 60 and certain state benefit recipients, are exempt.Taken together, the four National Health Services in 2015–16 employed around 1.6 million people with a combined budget of £136.7 billion. In 2014, the total health sector workforce across the United Kingdom was 2,165,043. This broke down into 1,789,586 in England, 198,368 in Scotland, 110,292 in Wales and 66,797 in Northern Ireland. In 2017, there were 691,000 nurses registered in the United Kingdom, down 1,783 from the previous year. However, this is the first time nursing numbers have fallen since 2008. Every 24 hours it sees one million patients, and with 1.7 million staff it is the fifth biggest employer in the world, as well as the largest non-military public organisation in the world.When purchasing drugs, the four healthcare services have significant market power that, based on their own assessment of the fair value of the drugs, influences the global price, typically keeping prices lower. A small number of products are procured jointly by two or more UK healthcare services. Several other countries either copy the United Kingdom’s model or directly rely on Britain’s assessments for their own decisions on state-financed drug reimbursements.

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1. NHS

   Nance-Horan syndrome protein is a protein that in humans is encoded by the NHS gene. This gene encodes a protein containing four conserved nuclear localization signals. The encoded protein may function during the development of the eyes, teeth, and brain. Mutations in this gene have been shown to cause Nance-Horan syndrome. An alternative splice variant has been described, but its full-length nature has not been determined.

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1. NHS

   What does NHS stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the NHS acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'nhs' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3735

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1. HSN

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of nhs in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of nhs in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of nhs in a Sentence

1. James Brown:

   It must be stopped and we just divert its funds to supporting the NHS.

2. Chaand Nagpaul:

   This is not normal, and therefore, the government does need to recognize this is clearly an NHS under extreme pressure, and the living reality sadly for thousands of patients is that they’re suffering the consequences of such pressures and also staff absence.

3. Suranga Chandratillake:

   The city is the most genetically diverse in the world, almost all citizens use the same health system and there are a variety of tech projects, both government-funded within the NHS [ National Health Service ] and privately-funded startups, that have grown rapidly against this backdrop and stand in a very strong position.

4. Nick Phin:

   There have been no associated cases identified outside healthcare organizations, local authorities and the NHS have worked quickly to determine the likely cause of this outbreak and taken action to reduce the risk to the public's health.

5. David Furness:

   Our providers are telling us that people are going private, many for the first time, and the key factor driving that is the challenge in accessing NHS care.

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References

1. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nhs
2. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=nhs