How to Use the National Health Service in a Sentence

the National Health Service

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• The state was running a deficit of a hundred and fifty-seven billion pounds—about one and a half times the budget of the National Health Service.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
• The hike in salary thresholds comes after a rise in the surcharge that migrants pay upfront to use the National Health Service.
  — Bycathleen O’Grady, science.org, 23 Apr. 2024
• Spending on defense, schools, the National Health Service and overseas aid has been ringfenced for now.
  — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 6 Mar. 2024
• In Britain, nurses went on strike to protest staffing shortages and patient backlogs at the National Health Service.
  — Elisabeth Zerofsky, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
• There has been no windfall for the National Health Service and no drop in immigration, either.
  — William Booth, Washington Post, 12 June 2024
• Unlike the National Health Service, social care is not free for most people, and is often hard to navigate.
  — Megan Specia, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2023
• Polls suggest the British electorate is most concerned with the cost of living, how to deal with migrants and asylum seekers, and the dire state of the National Health Service, which provides free treatment for all.
  — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2024
• The goal is to get the device approved by regulators so that it can be prescribed by doctors through the National Health Service or Medicaid.
  — Amit Katwala, WIRED, 8 Feb. 2024
• With the creation of the National Health Service in the late 1940s, medical romances were also a hot subgenre, and the doctors and nurses in those stories were reflected on the covers of their books.
  — Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 1 Aug. 2024
• Seven and a half million people are waiting for elective care from the National Health Service, five million more than when the Conservatives took power in 2010.
  — Josh Holder, New York Times, 24 June 2024
• In Britain, local councils, not the National Health Service, are responsible for social care.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 16 July 2023
• Meanwhile, the government, already reeling from the costs of the pandemic, is having to find the cash to fund public-sector pay rises following extensive strikes in the National Health Service and elsewhere.
  — Roger Trapp, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
• That’s about 1,000 new cancer cases detected every day, according to the National Health Service.
  — Laurie Kellman, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2024
• His decision has already made an impact, as the National Health Service said his announcement prompted a 1,000% surge in searches about prostate enlargement on its website.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 26 Jan. 2024
• Waiting times at the National Health Service, which is depleted after years of fiscal austerity, stretched into months.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 22 May 2024
• My employer, the National Health Service, couldn’t be more understanding.
  — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 3 July 2023
• In England, the National Health Service said the outage was causing issues with its patient record systems at general practitioner offices.
  — Alyssa Fowers, Washington Post, 19 July 2024
• The pandemic — and government budget cuts that left the National Health Service understaffed — also took a toll on productivity.
  — David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 10 July 2024
• Britain’s election, analysts say, is likely to be decided by domestic concerns like the cost-of-living crisis, home-mortgage rates, immigration and the dilapidated state of the National Health Service.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2024
• And surgeons reported extremely low confidence that the National Health Service or other institutional bodies would respond well to reports of abuse.
  — Amanda Taub, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2023
• Austerity measures have sapped essential public services, especially the National Health Service, and many young Britons now see home ownership as an almost impossible dream.
  — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2024
• Other symptoms include change in behavior, decline in mental abilities, language problems, and physical problems, according to the National Health Service website.
  — Brittany Bowker, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 26 Nov 2024