Answer the following questions

1. When did the Acts setting up the National Health Service in Britain come into force? 2. What was the state mostly concerned with before that time? 3. What was the object of the National Service Act? 4. Did the introduction of the new health service change the old system completely? 5. Can the poorest categories of population use the benefits of medical care? 6. Do the people of Great Britain have to pay for the services provided by the National Health Service? 7. What main groups do the services provided by the National Health Service fall into? 8. From what sources is the cost of health and welfare services met? 9. Is medical service entirely free under the National Health Service Act? 10. Are there any limitations for the population of Britain in using the Service? 11. Do many people of Great Britain use the Service? 12. What parts do the practitioner services consist of? 13. How does a patient find a family doctor? 14. Can a doctor be forced to attend a person against his will? 15. What does a family doctor do if a serious illness develops or diagnosis is difficult? 16. What is the maximum permitted number of patients names to be put on one principal's list? 17. How is a doctor in public service remunerated? 18. Where do the doctors in the Family Doctor Service receive their patients? 19. What is a common method of entering general practice for a graduate of a medical college? 20. What kinds of medical treatment do the hospital and specialist services provide? 21. Is the level of medical care the same in publicly run hospitals and private hospitals and nursing homes? 22. Why are general practitioners of high qualification not attracted into the public hospital service? 23. Are there any others hospitals that remain outside the Service? 24. What medical specialists can practice as doctors in the National Health Service? 25. What mini­mum qualification is necessary for a doctor to be registered? 26. What training is obligatory for a medical graduate after the completion of his final examination? 27. What is the governing body of the medical profession? 28. What educational institutions can grant degrees in medicine and surgery?

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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.