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The voucher can be cashed with any supplier who accepts NHS optical vouchers. Between 1948 and 1985, the NHS supplied spectacle frames. In 1949, there were ten free styles of frame and seven which could be chosen for payment of an additional fee. There could be an 18-month waiting list before the finished spectacles arrived. Initially they were ...
It is administered by the NHS Business Services Authority. It is not necessary to be in receipt of any benefits in order to qualify. [1] An online application system was under trial in 2022. It is restricted to people who do not have capital or savings of over £6,000. [2]
Vouchers are sold to people who want to use the service. The price is subsidised, so that on the one hand the service is affordable - and for instance can compete with informal (illegal) work - and on the other provides decent condition working for the employees (including social insurance cover, holiday pay etc.).
NHSBSA administers the NHS Pension Scheme in England and Wales, offering services for members, employers and surviving spouses, partners or dependants. Scanning services digitise medical records from across the NHS. NHSBSA also took on NHS Jobs, the official online recruitment service for the NHS in England and Wales on 1 April 2018.
The National Health Service Act 1952 (15 & 16 Geo. 6 & 1 Eliz. 2. c. 25) is an Act of Parliament passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It extended prescription charges and dental charges for National Health Service patients. [1] The one shilling charge for prescriptions was introduced on 1 June 1952. [2]
SystmOne is one of the computer systems available to GPs under the Systems of Choice scheme from 2008, as well as through Local Service Provider, the CSC. Like other GP systems it makes extensive use of Read codes. Like most other GP systems all data is held on remote servers. It can be accessed using a mobile phone.
The legal basis was the National Health Service (Travelling Expenses and Remission of Charges) Regulations SI no 551 of 1988. Before 1988 there was a scheme but there was no statutory basis and the costs incurred were met centrally. From 1988 Health Authorities met the cost of expenditure. Subsequently costs were transferred to NHS trusts. New ...
Any Qualified Provider (AQP) is a contractual system within the NHS internal market of the English National Health Service.The system was introduced under the Labour administration in 2009/10 under the name "Any Willing Provider" and was accelerated under the coalition Government which formed in 2010.