Now they have more than 150 health centers in the U.K. The first Scottish ... was opened in Edinburgh in 1953. 

70 per cent of their hospitals are small, with only about 200 beds. Such hospitals are not ...and cannot provide a full range of service, which requires a district hospital of 800 beds or more. 

In fact, the ... work in the NHS. They have modern hospitals but half of the buildings are over 100 years old. 

Family doctors work in close cooperation with the hospital doctors. Health centers are the basis of ...

These health centers are an integral part of a ...comprehensive health service. 

Health centers ...all the special diagnostic and therapeutic services which family doctors may need, such as electrocardiography, X-ray, physiotherapy and good administrative and medical records systems. 

Free emergency medical treatment is given to any visitor from ... who becomes ill while staying in England

The National Health Service Act was passed through Parliament in 1946 and in 1948 this Act received the Royal assent and was ... into operation.

Most medical treatment in Great Britain is free, but charges are made for drugs, spectacles and 

But those who come to England ... for treatment must pay for it.

Similar services operate in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. Further administrative changes were ... by a number of other Health Service Acts.