Calls for a "unified medical service" can be dated back to the Minority Report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Law in 1909.
Somerville Hastings, … 展开

Performance of the NHS is generally assessed separately at the level of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Since 2004 the Commonwealth Fund has produced surveys, "Mirror, Mirror on the Wall", comparing the performance of health … 展开

NHS charity songs under various choir names have become a tradition (usually at Christmas time but not necessarily) and various formation carrying … 展开

Everyone living in the UK can use the NHS without being asked to pay the full cost of the service, though NHS dentistry and optometry do have standard charges in each of the four national … 展开

Funding
2016
In 2016, the systems were 98.8% funded from general taxation and National Insurance contributions, plus small amounts from patient charges for some services. As of 2016, … 展开

In 2015, the UK had 2.6 hospital beds per 1,000 people. In September 2017, the King's Fund documented the number of NHS hospital beds in England as 142,000, describing this as less … 展开

• History of the NHS England
• History of NHS Scotland
• History of NHS Wales
• National Care Service
• Private providers of NHS services 展开