National Health Service
[ nash-uh-nl helth-sur-vis, nash-nuhl ]
noun
Great Britain’s publicly funded network of healthcare systems: often used in the United Kingdom as an umbrella term that also includes the Health and Social Care of Northern Ireland. Abbreviation: NHS
Origin of National Health Service
1First recorded in 1880–85 as a recommendation; established in 1946
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How to use National Health Service in a sentence
Physicians and auxiliary medical personnel are all employed by the state in the National Health Service.
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British Dictionary definitions for National Health Service
National Health Service
noun
(in Britain) the system of national medical services since 1948, financed mainly by taxation: Abbreviation: NHS
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