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1. The Acts… … the National Health Service in Britain in 1948. 2. Before that time the state was mostly… … the development of the environmental health services. 3. The object of the National Health Service Act was the establishment of a comprehensive health service... to secure improvement in the physical and mental health of the people. 4. On the..., all that was good in the existing services was… … a new scheme. 5. The National Health Service made it possible that the... once available only to... persons or those who could... to pay for them or as a form of..., became... to everyone. 6. Originally the National Health Service was... but certain charges were... later and show a definite... to grow. 7. The cost of health and welfare services in Britain is general taxation, local rates and from... paid by the patients. 8. There are charges for..., for... treatment, for some other health.... 9. The cost of prescriptions has... so... of late that people who need them most (old-age..., people with large families) often cannot... to buy medicines. 10. All these services (the Family Doctor Service, The Dental Service, and me Pharmaceutical Service)... the patient with the individual medical attention that he.... 11. Patients may choose the doctor they wish, provided only that he is in the Service and that he agrees to... them. 12. The doctor has the same freedom to... or... patients as he wishes. 13. The doctor cannot be... to attend any persons… ….... 14. The doctor working in the Service is... to attend paying patients who have not joined the Service, if he... to do so. 15. If a serious illness... or diagnosis is difficult the doctor may... in a consultant and get hospital treatment without... to any outside authority. 16. The maximum... number of patients' names to be put on one principal's list is 3,500, and the present... number is about 2,200. 17. A doctor in public service is... by a... payment for each patient registered with him, with an... of 12 shillings for every patient within the... of 501 to 1,500 on his list. 18. At... the Family Doctor Service is almost always organized from the doctor's own..., to which patients go for advice and treatment. 19. The hospital and specialists services provide hospital... of all kinds for... and..., hospital... departments; infectious... units... homes and others. 20. This leaves the public hospitals in the... of doctors who are always..., sometimes... and often not interested in the... their patients receive. 21. There is a considerable number of hospitals which the Service. 22. Some of them are run by and are a... into themselves. 23. There are also... hospitals and... homes, where... are very high. 24.... to say the level of medical care greatly... in the two categories of hospitals — the private ones and the ones which are part of the National Health Service. 25. The British working people... for more... for health services and... for people with inadequate incomes. 26. The minimum... for registration requires, for a doctor, five to seven years'... in the medical school and hospital, and, for a dentist, four years at a... school. 27. It also requires that before becoming fully... and... to practice indepen­dently a medical student must spend at least a year after the... of his examinations in satisfactory service in a resident medical... in one or more approved hospitals or institutions.

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