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.