Example sentences of "the nhs be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The " principles " of the NHS are equated with a particular set of institutional arrangements which , like a sanctified ancient monument , can not be touched but continue to crumble away under the onslaught of wind and weather . |
| 2 | More radical moves to reform the NHS are based on a belief that individuals should take more responsibility for their health care and that this can be achieved by extending the choice of different suppliers of medical services . |
| 3 | After I got my free plaster and sticky tape to keep the cotton wool swab on I found not just a cup of tea and rich tea on offer but a wide choice of beverages and crisps and chocolate biscuits all individually wrapped — from looking at that feast you would n't believe the NHS is strapped for cash . |
| 4 | By all valid international comparisons , the NHS is under-funded by at least two per cent of gross national product . |
| 5 | But her desire to provide a period of stability for nearly one million people employed by the NHS is coupled with a fierce determination to maintain the momentum of reform , with the overwhelming majority of hospitals becoming self-governing trusts by the mid-1990s . |
| 6 | We do not disagree that the financial health of the NHS requires attention , but it is also true that the NHS is caught in a gridlock of unevaluated and inefficient practice in which most major policy decisions are still left to individual clinicians ; this situation requires urgent attention . |
| 7 | The NHS is modelled on the ‘ patient patient . ’ |
| 8 | However , the fundamental nature of the NHS was maintained in the sense that it remained a service funded from general taxation , free at the point of use . |
| 9 | Resource distribution during early years of the NHS was based on previous funding with additions for specific developments , thus perpetuating and even exacerbating the inherited geographical inequalities . |
| 10 | Since then , however , a whole range of staff from administrative and clerical , to senior managers , anciliaries and technicians have won pay rises above , and sometimes well above , the 5 per cent the NHS was given for inflation . |
| 11 | The NHS was created at a time of post-war reconstruction , when large sections of British industry were being nationalised by the Labour government . |
| 12 | The report went on : ‘ The concentration on short-term gains as a result of the politicisation of the NHS was seen as a distinct drawback ’ . |
| 13 | In fact , it was written , by myself , in 1975 when the NHS was torn with strife as Mrs Barbara Castle , Labour 's Social Services Secretary , determined to get rid of private ‘ pay beds ’ from the NHS . |
| 14 | The 1974 reorganisation of the NHS was guided by similar views and several themes of the new public management can be traced back to the Fulton Report on the Civil Service published in 1968 . |
| 15 | The latest figures for 1990–91 show that the NHS was left with bad debts of £764,000 , which a department spokesman admitted was mainly due to people leaving the country without paying for their treatment . |
| 16 | A CANDLELIT vigil demanding more funding for the NHS was held at Darlington Memorial Hospital last night . |
| 17 | Under the terms of this formula resources in the NHS were distributed in such a way as to favour areas of the country traditionally under-provided with services , such as the Trent region in the Midlands . |
| 18 | The developments taking place in the NHS were paralleled by much wider trends in public management on an international scale which had many similar features . |
| 19 | FIFTEEN steps to be implemented within a month of taking office in order to reverse the Conservative health reforms and set a new direction for the NHS were outlined by Labour yesterday . |