Example sentences of "health service " in BNC.

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1 Uganda is a developing country with neither the wealth nor the health service infrastructure to cope with the problem adequately .
2 It is a separate tragedy altogether that , in a country where there is no nation health service , anything up to three million dollars can be spent killing someone .
3 From the early 1940s , the Irish government began to work towards the introduction of a comprehensive health service for mothers and children in line with other legislative developments in Western countries .
4 Additionally , they feared the full development of a national health service , viewed by them as unacceptable socialism .
5 All family planning services and supplies on prescription are provided free on the National Health Service if you are ordinarily resident in the UK .
6 The Family Planning Association and the Health Education Council provide a free Family Planning Information Service FPIS to help people to know about and use the free National Health Service facilities .
7 All family planning services and supplies on prescription are provided free on the National Health Service if you are ordinarily resident in the UK .
8 Remember , family planning is free under the National Health Service and you can choose whether to go to a family planning clinic or a GP .
9 In recent years , a lot of work has gone into improving the quality of care that patients receive from the health service .
10 There is also a wealth of support and expertise throughout the health service to turn to when you need help .
11 there has been hardly any research on the police compared with the large output of critical scholarship on industry , commerce , the civil service , the health service and education … what little direct research there has been on the police has scarcely begun to ask such fundamental questions as what is the police force and what is it doing .
12 The National Health Service insurance number will be requested , and the deceased 's medical card should be surrendered to the registrar if it is available .
13 NHS — continuing care : selected reports of the Health Service Commissioner
14 It contains guidance on arrangements to transfer local authority residential care homes to independent control ; it also gives Directions from the Secretary of State for Health about local authorities ' continuing responsibility for residents in transferred homes whose care was arranged by the local authority under Section 21(1) of the National Assistance Act 1948 ( as amended by paragraph 2(1) , Schedule 23 to the Local Government Act 1972 ) and under paragraph 2 , Schedule 8 to the National Health Service Act 1977 .
15 ‘ It is the view of the Department that Section 42 of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990 , which is to be implemented in April 1993 , will require authorities to make some direct provision for residential care under Section 21 of the 1948 Act ’ ( paragraph 5 ) .
16 Subjects covered include : assistance for privately let housing ; disposal of land ; assistance to voluntary organisations under Section 65 of the Health Service and Public Health Act 1968 ; transfer of staff of homes ; local authority capital finance ; promotion of bodies to acquire homes ; controls on local authority companies ; compulsory competitive tendering ; and restrictive trade practices .
17 NHS — CONTINUING CARE : SELECTED REPORTS OF THE HEALTH SERVICE COMMISSIONER
18 The Health Service Commissioner ( the ‘ Ombudsman ’ ) has published a report of selected investigations completed between October 1990 and March 1991 .
19 In making a decision on the first of the three cases cited , the Commissioner communicated with the Chief Executive of the National Health Service Management Executive , asking him about a health authority 's duty to provide continuing nursing care which is assessed as being needed , and which is not otherwise available .
20 The three cases described by the Health Service Commissioner differed in detail , and in each the Commissioner came to slightly different conclusions .
21 A discussion note will be prepared on the implications of the Health Service Commissioner 's decisions , and should be available by the end of October free on receipt of ( 9″ × 4″ ) sae from Francis d'Costa , Information and Policy Department , Age Concern England .
22 Health Service Commissioner second report for session 1990–91 : selected investigations completed October 1990 — March 1991 .
23 The letter links the findings of Dis-continuing care with Age Concern 's recent work on hospital discharge and other issues , and refers also to the recent decisions of the Health Service Commissioner on health authority responsibilities for provision of long-term care .
24 Continuing care for elderly people in the National Health Service .
25 Health Service Managers have been invited to express interest in joining the third wave of NHS Trusts , scheduled to come into operation on 1 April 1993 .
26 They suggest that clinical psychologists , with an understanding of psychological aspects of disability , may have a role to play in the development of services for older people with disabilities , and in training other health service professionals in how to respond to problems of disability in older people .
27 The Government has published its review of the National Health Service and has subsequently released 8 working papers .
28 It thus appears to neglect a significant part of care under the National Health Service which is of crucial importance to elderly people and their carers .
29 Age Concern believes that there is an urgent need for the Government to clarify the role of the health service in providing community care .
30 The White Paper gives no indication of how such care will be planned and budgeted for , and there is an urgent need to consider this aspect of health service provision .
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