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The National electronic Library for Health (NeLH) was a digital library service provided by the NHS for healthcare professionals and the public between 1998 and 2006. It briefly became the National Library for Health and elements of it continue to this day as NHS Evidence, managed by the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence, and a range of services provided by Health Education ...
Website. www .nihr .ac .uk. The National Institute for Health and Care Research ( NIHR) is the British government's major funder of clinical, public health, social care and translational research. [3] With a budget of over £1.2 billion in 2020–21, [4] its mission is to "improve the health and wealth of the nation through research". [5]
Between 1990 and 2017 UK governments spent at least £630m on public inquiries, [4] with most expensive being the Bloody Sunday Inquiry costing £210.6 million. [4] [5] Most public inquiries take about two years to complete their work. [4] The Hammond Inquiry into ministerial conduct relating to the Hinduja affair in 2001 has been the shortest ...
A six-minute video documentary of NICE from 2008. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence ( NICE) is an executive non-departmental public body, in England, of the Department of Health and Social Care, [1] that publishes guidelines in four areas: [2] the use of health technologies within England's National Health Service (NHS) and ...
The National Health Service ( NHS) is the publicly funded healthcare system in England, and one of the four National Health Service systems in the United Kingdom. It is the second largest single-payer healthcare system in the world after the Brazilian Sistema Único de Saúde.
The National Health Service ( NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom, comprising the NHS in 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". [2] The original three systems were established in ...
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.
Early foundations. The British Library was created on 1 July 1973 as a result of the British Library Act 1972. Prior to this, the national library was part of the British Museum, which provided the bulk of the holdings of the new library, alongside smaller organisations which were folded in (such as the National Central Library, the National Lending Library for Science and Technology and the ...