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  2. Healthcare in England - Wikipedia

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    Healthcare in England. The Royal Hospital Chelsea is a retirement home and nursing home, founded by King Charles II in 1682 as a retreat for veterans. Healthcare in England is mainly provided by the National Health Service (NHS), a public body that provides healthcare to all permanent residents in England, that is free at the point of use.

  3. Timeline of medicine and medical technology - Wikipedia

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    1908 – Victor Horsley and R. Clarke invents the stereotactic method. 1909 – First intrauterine device described by Richard Richter. [102] 1910 – Hans Christian Jacobaeus performs the first laparoscopy on humans. 1917 – Julius Wagner-Jauregg discovers the malarial fever shock therapy for general paresis of the insane.

  4. Timeline of nursing history - Wikipedia

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    1902 – Ellen Dougherty of New Zealand becomes the first registered nurse in the world. 1902 – New York City Board of Education hires Lina Rogers Struthers as North America's first school nurse. 1902 – Queen Alexandra's Imperial Military Nursing Service replaces, by royal warrant, the Army Nursing Service.

  5. History of hospitals - Wikipedia

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    The Care of Strangers: The Rise of America's Hospital System (1995) history to 1920 table of contents and text search; Rosner, David. A Once Charitable Enterprise: Hospitals and Health Care in Brooklyn and New York 1885–1915 (1982) Starr, Paul.

  6. History of medicine in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In New York, the medical department of King's College was established in 1767, and in 1770, awarded the first American M.D. degree. [13] Smallpox inoculation was introduced 1716–1766, well before it was accepted in Europe. The first medical schools were established in Philadelphia in 1765 and New York in 1768.

  7. Healthcare in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Most healthcare in England is provided by the NHS England, England's publicly funded healthcare system, which accounts for most of the Department of Health and Social Care's budget (£122.5 billion in 2017–18). Healthcare in Northern Ireland

  8. Healthcare in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Affordable Health Care for America (H.R. 3962) America's Affordable Health Choices (H.R. 3200) Baucus Health Bill (S. 1796) Proposed. American Health Care Act (2017) Medicare for All Act (2021, H.R. 1976) Healthy Americans Act (2007, 2009) Health Security Act (H.R. 3600) Latest enacted. Affordable Care Act (H.R. 3590) Health Care and Education ...

  9. History of the National Health Service - Wikipedia

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    Aneurin Bevan, Minister of Health, on the first day of the National Health Service, 5 July 1948 at Park Hospital, Davyhulme, near Manchester. The NHS was one of the first universal health care systems established anywhere in the world. [1] A leaflet was sent to every household in June 1948 which explained that.