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  2. The Health Lottery - Wikipedia

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    The Health Lottery is a lottery that operates on behalf of twelve local society lotteries across Great Britain. It was launched in October 2011 and runs five weekly draws on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays. Each week a different regional community interest company receives the funds, with 20% of ticket sale proceeds ...

  3. National Lottery (United Kingdom) - Wikipedia

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    Website. www.national-lottery.co.uk. The National Lottery is the state- franchised national lottery established in 1994 in the United Kingdom. It is regulated by the Gambling Commission, and is operated by Allwyn Entertainment, who took over from Camelot Group (who had been running the National Lottery since its inception) on 1 February 2024.

  4. National Health Service Lottery - Wikipedia

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    The National Health Service Lottery was a failed lottery scheme designed to provide funding for the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. [1] The scheme progressed as far as a trial in May 1988, but the scheme was cancelled at the last minute under threat of legal action, and the 43,000 people who took part in the first draw had their money refunded.

  5. Irish Hospitals' Sweepstake - Wikipedia

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    1930. The Irish Hospitals' Sweepstake was a lottery established in the Irish Free State in 1930 as the Irish Free State Hospitals' Sweepstake to finance hospitals. It is generally referred to as the Irish Sweepstake or Irish Sweepstakes, frequently abbreviated to Irish Sweep or Irish Sweeps. The Public Charitable Hospitals (Temporary Provisions ...

  6. Premium Bonds - Wikipedia

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    Premium Bonds is a lottery bond scheme organised by the United Kingdom government since 1956. At present it is managed by the government's National Savings and Investments agency. The principle behind Premium Bonds is that rather than the stake being gambled, as in a usual lottery, it is the interest on the bonds that is distributed by a lottery.

  7. The National Lottery Draws - Wikipedia

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    YouTube (2016–) ITV (2018–) Release. 19 November 1994. (1994-11-19) –. present. (present) The National Lottery Results (previously The National Lottery Live, The National Lottery Draw, The National Lottery Stars and The National Lottery Draws) is the television programme that broadcasts the drawing of the National Lottery in the United ...

  8. National Health Service (England) - Wikipedia

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    The NHS was established within the differing nations of the United Kingdom through differing legislation, and as such there has never been a singular British healthcare system, instead there are 4 health services in the United Kingdom; NHS England, the NHS Scotland, HSC Northern Ireland and NHS Wales, which were run by the respective UK government ministries for each home nation before falling ...

  9. Healthcare in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    Life expectancy development in UK by gender Comparison of life expectancy at birth in England and Wales. Healthcare in the United Kingdom is a devolved matter, with England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales each having their own systems of publicly funded healthcare, funded by and accountable to separate governments and parliaments, together with smaller private sector and voluntary provision.