As Minister for Health and Community Care, Chisholm introduced and oversaw the passage of the National Health Service Reform ( Scotland ) Bill which brought about the abolition of NHS Trusts in Scotland and the creation of Community Health Partnerships.

As it is, the secure hospital and two other care homes have been shut down, 11 guilty staff have been brought to justice – and a devastating report now exposes the serial failings of the local NHS, police and health watchdogs.

A serious professional misconduct hearing opened following complaints brought by four doctors from the main NHS Gender Identity Clinic at Charing Cross hospital, west London, and some of his former patients.

Clinical audit was incorporated within Clinical Governance in the 1997 White Paper, " The New NHS: Modern, Dependable ", which brought together disparate service improvement processes and formally established them into a coherent Clinical Governance framework.

Other public sector agencies that are major employers in the city include Central Scotland Police, Scottish Prison Service, NHS Forth Valley and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency.

Evesham has a 97-bed community hospital in Waterside, outside the town centre, used mainly by the elderly and for convalescence, although consultants from major Worcester NHS hospitals hold clinics there.

The area is covered by NHS Forth Valley and with the recent downgrading of the Falkirk and Stirling Hospitals, all major services have been transferred to the newly built Forth Valley Royal Hospital in nearby Larbert.

Hydrolysis of the NHS ester is a major competing reaction, and the rate of hydrolysis increases with increasing pH.

Consequential to its function as a major connector route, the entire length of SR 420 is included within the National Highway System ( NHS ).

The National Highway System ( NHS ) is a network of strategic highways within the United States, including the Interstate Highway System and other roads serving major airports, ports, rail or truck terminals, railway stations, pipeline terminals and other strategic transport facilities.

Despite these improvements, however, the NHS retained a reputation of being a low-wage employer by the end of the First Wilson Government ’ s time in office.

As a result of these improvements, long waiting times are now mostly a thing of the past and the private health care sector now sells its surplus capacity to the NHS.

Private health care was not abolished but had to compete with the NHS.

About 15 % of all spending on health in the UK is still privately funded but this includes the patient contributions towards NHS provided prescription drugs, so private sector health care in the UK is quite small.

The NHS for example would distribute baby formula milk fortified with vitamins and minerals in an effort to improve the health of children born in the post war years as well as other supplements such as cod liver oil and malt.

The Conservative Thatcher administrations attempted to bring competition into the NHS by developing a supplier / buyer role between hospitals as suppliers and health authorities as buyers.

The Labour Party generally opposed these changes, although after the party became New Labour, the Blair government retained elements of competition and even extended it, allowing private health care providers to bid for NHS work.

One is to take the NHS back more towards health prevention by tackling issues that are known to cause long term ill health.

Far more money was spent each year on the NHS than under the 1951 – 64 Conservative governments, while much more effort was put into modernising and reorganising the health service.

Canada's Medicare system and most of the UK's NHS general practitioner and dental services, which are systems where health care is delivered by private business with partial or total government funding, fit this broader definition, as do the health care systems of most of Western Europe.

This rationing does not preclude choice of obtaining insurance coverage for excluded treatment as insured persons do having the choice to take out supplemental health insurance for drugs and treatments that the NHS does not cover ( at least one private insurer offers such a plan ) or from meeting treatment costs out-of-pocket.

In the UK, it is private health insurers that ration care ( in the sense of not covering the most common services such as access to a primary care physician or excluding pre-existing conditions ) rather than the NHS.

In January 2009 the Labour Secretary of State for Health, Alan Johnson, reaffirmed this commitment with regard to the health sector, stating that “ PFIs have always been the NHS ’ s ‘ plan A ’ for building new hospitals … There was never a ‘ plan B ’".

* The Department of Health, ( DoH ) has responsibility for government policy on health, social care and the English National Health Service ( NHS ).

Through the NHS R & D programme, led by the first Director of Research and Development Professor Michael Peckham, funds were provided to establish a ' Cochrane Centre ', to collaborate with others, in the UK and elsewhere, to facilitate systematic reviews of randomized controlled trials across all areas of health care.

Buckinghamshire NHS Primary Care Trust ( PCT ) has overall responsibility for provision of health services to the local community.

* a health service body or NHS Trust

* Paul Williams ( health service manager ) ( born 1948 ), former Chief Executive, NHS Wales

Several NHS centres provide health care facilities, with Isebrook Hospital being equipped for procedures such as large X-Rays and neurological investigations, and long-term care, that are not catered for by primary care surgeries.

Front line health workers also lobbied against Hewitt, sending her petitions opposing cuts to the NHS and privatization plans which the Department of Health wished to follow up.

However to do this she was forced to cut 17, 000 jobs, cut public health spending, although that was previously at a high level, and reduce study budgets for NHS staff.

Some of the hospital was demolished in 1997, with the remainder being utilised for mental health inpatient services by South Essex Mental Health and Community Care NHS Trust until spring 2005 when services were dispersed and Rochford Hospital closed for redevelopment as part of the Runwell Hospital reprovision programme ( latterly South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust )

Many professionals in local authorities and the NHS are employed to halt this decline by ensuring that the built environment allows people to walk and that there are walking opportunities available to them.

The aim was to allow people who travel from the southbank to the northbank for medical treatment to cross the bridge without paying the toll, and to allow the Secretary of State for Transport to appoint two members of the Humber Bridge board to represent the interests of the NHS.

Refunds are available to people who pay monthly or annual in advance whose plans change ; reimbursements are available to NHS patients assessed to be too ill to travel by public-transport, NHS staff using vehicles on official business and fire fighters.

B ' Stard's arrogance even extended to stating that there was nothing wrong with the education system that couldn't be put right with £ 2, 500 a term, and that NHS waiting lists could be abolished by shutting down the health service, thereby eradicating poor people and eliminating poverty.

It is run by the Scarborough and North East Yorkshire Healthcare NHS Trust, which provides a range of acute hospital services for around 240, 000 people living in and around Scarborough, Bridlington, Whitby and Ryedale.

The use of health technologies within the NHS ( such as the use of new and existing medicines, treatments and procedures ), clinical practice ( guidance on the appropriate treatment and care of people with specific diseases and conditions ), and guidance for public sector workers on Health promotion and ill-health avoidance.

During World War 2 it was occupied by the Canadian army and was later used by the NHS as Woodhurst Hospital ( there are several postcards of this taken in 1955 ), and later 55 older people with learning difficulties living in residential care provided by Surrey Oaklands NHS Trust.

This recommended that government ( including the NHS and local authorities ) should be responsible for providing free care in the spirit of the NHS Act to all people even if their illness takes the form of a chronic mental frailty.

It has published most recently on the long-term future of the NHS, Britain's regional economic performance, the economic position of young people, and on the tax and welfare system.

NHS dental coverage can then be patchy and some people may find that private dentistry is the only practical option open to them in their locality.

The mines have all now closed, so the hospital latterly ran as part of the NHS serving the people of Caerphilly Borough.

That the July 2007 terrorist attacks in central London and at Glasgow airport may have involved NHS medical professionals was a recent wake-up call that screening people with access to pathogens may be necessary.

NHS Direct supports many local health authorities in England, including Primary Care Trusts ( PCTs ), helping them to deliver the best possible standards of healthcare to people in each region.

The aim of NHS Direct, as stated by the government in the NHS White Paper, The New NHS, was " to provide people at home with easier and faster advice and information about health, illness, and the NHS, so that they are better able to care for themselves and their families ".

Much of the continuing care of elderly and disabled people was provided by the NHS.

On 13 March 2006, six people in a drug trial at the independent Parexel drug trial unit ( which is not run by The North West London Hospitals NHS Trust ) became severely unwell following administration of TGN1412 and were transferred to the intensive therapy unit at Northwick Park.

Although compliant with UK data protection law, some people objected to the NHS passing on such data to third parties without explicit consent, and also had concerns about the data security in such a large project.

Since 1997, the Cystic Fibrosis Trust has invested over £ 10 million in the NHS to improve clinical care for the 8, 000 people in the UK with CF ; helping fund doctors, nurses and multidisciplinary teams.