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  2. Urgent care center - Wikipedia

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    An urgent care center ( UCC ), also known as an urgent treatment centre (UTC) in the United Kingdom, is a type of walk-in clinic focused on the delivery of urgent ambulatory care in a dedicated medical facility outside of a traditional emergency department located within a hospital. Urgent care centers primarily treat injuries or illnesses ...

  3. Healthcare in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    The 2018 OECD data, which incorporates in health a chunk of what in the UK is classified as social care, has the UK spending £3,121 per head. Healthcare spending as a share of the gross domestic product (GDP) has increased since 1997, where it was 6.8 per cent. By 2019, healthcare expenditure in the UK amounted to 10.2 per cent of GDP.

  4. COVID-19 hospitals in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. COVID-19 hospitals in the United Kingdom are temporary hospitals set up in the United Kingdom and overseas territories as part of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic . They principally include the seven NHS England Nightingale Hospitals, NHS Scotland's Louisa Jordan hospital, NHS Wales' Dragon's Heart Hospital, and the Northern Irish ...

  5. Department of Health and Social Care - Wikipedia

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    The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom.It is responsible for government policy on health and adult social care matters in England, along with a few elements of the same matters which are not otherwise devolved to the Scottish Government, Welsh Government or Northern Ireland Executive.

  6. Reduced hours at urgent care unit draws criticism - AOL

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    May 20, 2024 at 1:25 AM. The urgent treatment centre at Crawley Hospital has cut its opening hours [BBC] A move to cut the opening hours at a 24-hour urgent care centre has been opposed by ...

  7. Vocare - Wikipedia

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    Vocare. Vocare is a provider of Out-of-hours services to the NHS in England based in Newcastle upon Tyne . The firm started in 1996 as Northern Doctors Urgent Care GP co-operative, run by family doctors in Northumberland who were then responsible for 24 hour care for their patients. In 2004 it took over Out-of-hours services in the North East.

  8. Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust

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    Headquarters. Teddington, London, England. Hospitals. Teddington Memorial Hospital. Staff. 1,244 WTE (2023) [1] Website. hrch .nhs .uk. Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust is an NHS trust which provides adult and children's community health services.

  9. National Health Service (England) - Wikipedia

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    The National Health Service ( NHS) is the publicly funded healthcare system in England, and one of the four National Health Service systems in the United Kingdom. It is the second largest single-payer healthcare system in the world after the Brazilian Sistema Único de Saúde.