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The National Health Service - Official government site, launched to commemorate 50 years of the NHS. Information about the history, function and structure of the NHS.

Our Healthier Nation - Website managed by the Health Education Authority on behalf of the Department of Health. Supports the white paper, Saving lives - Our Healthier Nation. Contains a collection of links, contacts and resources, including a searchable national database.

NHS Information Authority : National Electronic Library for Health - An official NHS site with seventy clinical resources for health professionals. Seven resources are limited to NHS staff only. Professional Portals also available for Nursing and allied Health.

NHShistory.com - Developments in clinical medicine and organisation within the British NHS as described in extracts from the book "From Cradle to Grave: fifty years of the NHS" written by Geoffrey Rivett.

National Blood Service - National blood supply for England and North Wales. Facts about blood donation. Search and find a local blood donor session. Quizzes and games.

South Coast Audit NHS - Providing internal audit services to NHS organisations across Kent, Sussex, Surrey and South East London.

Primary Care: NHS Executive - Primary Care Division of the NHS Executive. Details of the Government's new NHS developments. Primary Care Groups and Trusts, Walk-in Centres, Health Action Zones, PMS Pilots.

NHS Direct - The 24 hour nurse-led telephone advice service run by the NHS. Provides information on the diagnosis and treatment of common conditions. When to seek medical help. Advice on healthy living.

National Coordinating Centre for Health Technology Assement - The Health Technology Assessment (HTA) programme is one of the largest elements of the National Health Service's Research and Development Strategy and makes an important contribution to developing a knowledge based NHS

NHS Information Authority - The 'special' Health Authority with the responsibility for NHS information technology.

National Clinical Assessment Authority - Special health authority part of the NHS's work on quality. Provides a support service when there are concerns over the performance of a doctor.

NHS Exposed - A behind the scenes look into the NHS. Written by a doctor and exploring the relationship between professional etiquette and patient care.

West Midlands Data Quality Team - Information about group created to promote data quality within the NHS by providing information and support to health organisations.

The NHS Confederation - Membership body for organisations comprising the NHS. Includes details of its aims and priorities, events and publications.

Directgov - Health and Well-Being - Official government public information service for health concerns and issues. Includes links to support groups.

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(Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 1872-1970) National Health Service Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. -- Stephen Leacock No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. -- Mignon McLaughlin If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability. -- Henry Ford National Health Service The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. -- William James A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. - John D. Rockefeller I hate women because they always know where things are. -- James Thurber I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. -- Calvin Coolidge "The devil's agents may be of flesh and blood, may they not?" 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The best is yet to be! -- Robert Browning National Health Service Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder. -- George Washington There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true. -- Neils Bohr We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. -- Winston Churchill Never be possessive. If a female friend lets on that she is going out with another man, be kind and understanding. 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Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition -- plowing straight ahead, come what may I was nauseous and tingly all over... I was either in love or I had smallpox. -- Woody Allen Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it. -- Max Frisch The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. -- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, trans. A.J. Krailsheimer National Health Service Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. -- Phyllis McGinley America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair. -- Arnold Toynbee Asking politicians to vote themselves out of power is like asking rabbits not to multiply, it ain't natural. -- Bob Beckel, on term limits, CBS This Morning, 3/30/95 National Health Service Never judge a book by its movie. -- J. W. Eagan Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. --Lao-Tzu, "Tao Teh Ching" Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter. -- Cecilia Egan "If you light a man a fire, he will be warm for a day; if you light a man on fire, he will be warm for the rest of his life." (Anonymous) National Health Service Marriage is a trip between Niagara Falls and Reno. Hark, the Herald Tribune sings, Advertising wondrous things! -- Tom Lehrer When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. -- Anatole France National Health Service There's a saying among prospectors: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find." -- Robert Flaherty "I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record." (Dylan Thomas, final words) Trust, but verify. -- Ronald Reagan Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. -- George Bernard Shaw I will try to follow the advice that a university president once gave a prospective commencement speaker. "Think of yourself as the body at an Irish wake" he said. "They need you in order to have th National Health Service To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. -- Oscar Wilde Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals. -- Cynthia Heimel I used to be Snow White, but I drifted. -- Mae West National Health Service Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. -- George Bernard Shaw A man must marry only a very pretty woman in case he should ever want some other man to take her off his hands. -- Guitry We in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman. And behind her stands his wife. -- Groucho Marx The cynics are right nine times out of ten. - Henry Louis Mencken I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting. -- John Brown - last words National Health Service And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make. -- The Beatles, The last lyric of their last song "I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free." (Walker Percy, The Moviegoer) Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia. -- Charles Schultz National Health Service "Even a stopped clock is right twice a day." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach) "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." (Anatole France) A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say. -- Michael Winner "Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't allow our enemies to have guns, why should we allow them to have ideas?" (Josef Stalin) When Baby's cries grew hard to bear I popped him in the Frigidaire. I never would have done so if I'd known that he'd be frozen stiff. My wife said, "George, I'm so unhappy! Our darling's now comple National Health Service "Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours." (Dale Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. -- Oscar Wilde "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." (Abraham Lincoln, 1809-65) National Health Service Character is what you are in the dark. -- Dwight L. Moody "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they don't want to hear." (George Orwell) You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. -- WARREN BEATTY Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. -- Simeon Strunsky Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. -- Winston Churchill National Health Service "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." 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