The National Health Service

HealthServicesinGreatBritain

Лабораторная работа

По английскому языку

для студентов IV курса Восточного института

Владивосток

Издательство Дальневосточного университета

ББК81.2Англ

УДК 802.0:910 (076.5)

Данная лабораторная работа предназначена для студентов IV курса. Цель — овладеть лексикой по данной теме. Комплекс упражнений, представленных в работе, способствует активному усвоению лексики, расширяет словарный запас, способствует закреплению навыков устной речи и обеспечивает их дальней­шее развитие.

Подготовлена на кафедре английского языка Восточного института ДВГУ.

Составители: Н. Г. Зверева. З.М. Пантюх, Н.В. Юрчик.

Печатается по решению учебно-методического совета ДВГУ.

© Издательство Дальневосточного университета, 1999

The National Health Service

The Acts setting up the National Health Service in Britain came into force in 1948. Before that time the state was mostly concerned with the development of the environmental health ser­vices, such as provision of pure water, sewerage, disposal of refuse and cleaning of streets.

The object of the National Health Service Act was the estab­lishment of a comprehensive health service designed to secure im­provement in the physical and mental health of the people and the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of illness.

The introduction of the new health service did not mean a complete break with the past. On the contrary, all that was good in the existing services was absorbed into a new scheme. The National Health Service made it possible that the benefits once available only to insured persons or those who could afford to pay for them, or as a form of charity, became available to everyone.

Originally it was free but certain charges were introduced later and show a definite tendency to grow.

The services provided by the National Health Service fall into three main groups:

1. The general practitioners services. This includes the family doctor service, the dental service, the eye service and some other services.

2. The hospital and specialists services.

3. The local health and welfare authority services (comprising a range of home and clinical services for prevention, treatment or care).

The cost of health and welfare services in Britain is met from general taxation, local rates and from charges paid by the patients.

There are charges for prescriptions, for dental treatment, for some other health services. The cost of prescriptions has risen so sharply of late that people who need them most (old-age pensioners, people with large families) often cannot afford to buy medicines.

The public is free to use the Service, or any independent part of it, as it pleases.

About 97 per cent of the whole population of Great Britain is using the Service. The great majority of specialists and general practitioners are taking part in the Service.

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