Tag: Health Care
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Radioactive Material
Radioactive Material Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material (NORM) waste NORM Waste Regulation in the UK NORM waste is a specific term used in legislation and includes wastes from NORM industrial activities and NORM wastes from the remediation of land contaminated with NORM. Some of the industrial activities generate, or have the potential for generating, NORM wastes.…
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Radioactive Material
Radioactive Material Naturally Occurring Radioactive Material (NORM) waste NORM Waste Regulation in the UK NORM waste is a specific term used in legislation and includes wastes from NORM industrial activities and NORM wastes from the remediation of land contaminated with NORM. Some of the industrial activities generate, or have the potential for generating, NORM wastes.…
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Prescription Charges
Prescription Charges Background The United Kingdom is made up of four countries; England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Health care across the United Kingdom is universal and free at the point of use however there are charges for some services e.g. prescription medications [3]. In addition approximately 11% of the population have private health insurance…
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Death Certification
Death Certification and Crematory: History The crematory council turned their attention to the need for a national system of death certification, to be enforced by law as an essential and much-needed reform in connexion with cremation. On the 6th of January 1893 the duke Death certification. […]
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Disability
Concept Disability, a term meaning, in general, want of ability, and used in law to denote an incapacity in certain persons or classes of persons for the full enjoyment of duties or privileges, which, but for their disqualification, would be open to them; hence, legal disqualification. Thus, […]
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National Health Insurance The United Kingdom
Introduction to National Health Insurance The United Kingdom The British system of national health insurance, comprising social security and the National Health Service, was thoroughly reorganized after World War II and is one of the most comprehensive systems in operation. National health […]