Difference between revisions of "Timeline of healthcare in the United Kingdom"

This is a '''timeline of [[healthcare in the United Kingdom]]'''. Major events such as crisis, policies and organizations are described.

|1946 onwards||Following the [[Second World War]], major social reforms aim at a universal healthcare system as main purpose. A respective [[National Health Service]] (NHS) is established for England ([[NHS England]]), Scotland ([[NHS Scotland]]), and Wales ([[NHS Wales]]) as independent institutions. [[Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland]] is also established.  

|Present time||Today, the healthcare system in the United Kingdom is still fragmented, with [[England]], [[Northern Ireland]], [[Scotland]] and [[Wales]] each having their own systems of [[publicly funded healthcare]], funded by and accountable to separate governments and parliaments, together with smaller private sector and voluntary provision. In a 2014 report ranking developed-country healthcare systems, the overall healthcare system of the [[United Kingdom]] was ranked the best in the world in the following categories: Quality of Care (i.e. effective, safe, coordinated, patient-oriented), Access to Care, Efficiency, and Equity.<ref>{{cite web|title=How the U.S. Health Care System Compares Internationally|url=http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund-reports/2014/jun/mirror-mirror|accessdate=23 November 2016}}</ref>

[[File:Healthcare uk.png|thumb|none|400px|Evolution of healthcare expenditure in [[Pound (currency)|Pounds]] in the United Kingdom. Local maxima can be appreciated around [[World War I]] and [[World War II]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Public Spending Chart|url=http://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk/download_multi_year_1900_2020UKb_16c1li011mcn_F0t|accessdate=5 December 2016}}</ref>]]

|1106||Organization||[[St Thomas' Hospital]] is established. Originally a monastery hospital.<ref name="Guy's King's and St Thomas' Hospitals Mens' Football Club" />||England (London)

|1123||Organization||[[St Bartholomew's Hospital]] is founded by the monk [[Rahere]] in order to give free medical care to the poor.<ref>{{cite web|title=The History of Barts|url=http://www.bartsgreathall.com/index.php/st-barts/history-of-barts|accessdate=11 November 2016}}</ref>||England (London)

|1550||Organization||[[St Thomas's Hospital Medical School]] is founded.<ref name="Guy's King's and St Thomas' Hospitals Mens' Football Club">{{cite web|title=Guy's King's and St Thomas' Hospitals Mens' Football Club|url=http://www.gktfc.co.uk/our-history|accessdate=11 November 2016}}</ref>||[[London]]

|1721||Organization||[[Guy's Hospital]] is founded.<ref name="Guy's King's and St Thomas' Hospitals Mens' Football Club" /><ref>{{cite web|title=Guy's Hospital|url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vol22/pp36-42|accessdate=11 November 2016}}</ref>||England ([[London]])

|1737||Organization||[[Aberdeen Royal Infirmary]] is founded.<ref>{{cite web|title=Aberdeen Royal Infirmary|url=https://www.grid.ac/institutes/grid.417581.e|accessdate=2 December 2016}}</ref>||Scotland (Foresterhill)

|1740||Organization||The [[Royal London Hospital]] is founded. It is part of [[Barts Health NHS Trust]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Royal London Hospital|url=http://www.eastlondonhistory.co.uk/history-royal-london-hospital/|accessdate=11 November 2016}}</ref>||England ([[London]])

|1766||Organization||[[Addenbrooke's Hospital]] is founded as a teaching hospital.<ref>{{cite web|title=Addenbrooke|url=http://www.cuh.org.uk/news/archives/addenbrookes-1766-2016-celebrating-our-past-and-caring-for-your-future|accessdate=22 November 2016}}</ref>||England ([[Cambridge]])

|1794||Organization||[[Glasgow Royal Infirmary]] is founded.<ref>{{cite web|title=Records of Glasgow Royal Infirmary, hospital, Glasgow, Scotland|url=http://www.archives.gla.ac.uk/gghb/collects/hb14.html|website=www.archives.gla.ac.uk|accessdate=14 January 2017|language=en|date=30 January 2009}}</ref>||Scotland (Glasgow)

|1803||Organization||[[Bedford Hospital]] is founded.<ref>{{cite web|title=Bedford Hospital|url=https://www.bedfordhospital.nhs.uk/working-here/about-bedford-hospital/our-history/|accessdate=22 November 2016}}</ref>||England ([[Bedford]])

|1804||Organization||[[Moorfields Eye Hospital]] is founded. It is the first center in the world for ophthalmic treatment.<ref>{{cite web|title=Moorfields|url=http://www.moorfields.nhs.uk/content/our-history|accessdate=11 November 2016}}</ref>||England (London)

|1815||Policy||[[Apothecaries Act 1815]] is passed by the [[Parliament of the United Kingdom]]. The Act introduces compulsory apprenticeship and formal qualifications for apothecaries, in modern terms [[general practitioner]]s, under the license of the [[Society of Apothecaries]]. It is the beginning of regulation of the [[medicine|medical profession]] in [[Great Britain]]. The Act requires instruction in [[anatomy]], [[botany]], [[chemistry]], ''[[materia medica]]'' and "[[wiktionary:physic|physic]]", in addition to six months of practical [[hospital]] experience.<ref>{{cite book | pages=316–317 | last=Porter |first=Roy |authorlink=Roy Porter | title=The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present | publisher=W. W. Norton & Company | location=New York | isbn=978-0-393-31980-4 |origyear=1997 |year=1999}}</ref>||

|1832||Organization||The [[British Medical Association]] is established. It is the [[professional association]] and registered [[trade union]] for [[physician|doctors]] in the [[United Kingdom]].<ref>{{cite web|title=The history of the BMA|url=https://www.bma.org.uk/events/venue-hire/our-history|accessdate=11 November 2016}}</ref>||England (London)

|1840||Organization||[[King's College Hospital]] is founded.<ref name="Guy's King's and St Thomas' Hospitals Mens' Football Club" /><ref>{{cite web|title=King's College Hospital|url=http://www.kingscollections.org/catalogues/kclca/collection/k/10ki40-1/|accessdate=11 November 2016}}</ref>||England (London)

|1851||Organization||[[The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust]] is founded. It is the first hospital in the world dedicated to the study and treatment of [[cancer]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Royal Marsden|url=https://www.royalmarsden.nhs.uk/about-royal-marsden/who-we-are/our-history|accessdate=11 November 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The Royal Marsden|url=http://www.electives.net/hospital/4783/preview|accessdate=11 November 2016}}</ref>||England (London)

|1858||Policy||[[Medical Act 1858]] is enacted to regulate the qualifications of practitioners in medicine and surgery.<ref>{{cite web|title=Medical Act 1858|url=http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/21-22/90/introduction/enacted|accessdate=11 November 2016}}</ref>||  

|1859||Organization||The National Hospital for the Paralyzed and Epileptic (today [[National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery]]) is founded. It is the first hospital in the world specializing in outpatient epilepsy care.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Shorvon|first1=Simon|last2=Perucca|first2=Emilio|last3=Engel|first3=Jerome|title=The Treatment of Epilepsy|url=https://books.google.com.ar/books?id=ppKbCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT651&lpg=PT651&dq=%22first+hospital+in+the+world+specializing%22&source=bl&ots=OmUDkOGsnX&sig=U4CK1EfhtiA1eN6Yk1nQ7IpP0i8&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjRwLTeiqvPAhXCEpAKHZTgAicQ6AEIGjAA#v=onepage&q=%22first%20hospital%20in%20the%20world%20specializing%22&f=false}}</ref>||England (London)

|1862||Organization||[[Birmingham Children's Hospital]] is founded.<ref>{{cite web|title=Birmingham Children's Hospital|url=http://www.bch.nhs.uk/corporate/our-history|accessdate=22 November 2016}}</ref>||England ([[Birmingham]])

|1866||Organization||[[Stratheden Hospital]] is founded.<ref>{{cite web|title=NHS Fife asks the population to help mark the 150th Anniversary of Stratheden Hospital|url=https://www.nhsfife.org/nhs/index.cfm?fuseaction=nhs.newsdisplay&objectid=021D0931-F996-552C-5FEA25A0265AAD5D|website=nhsfife.org|accessdate=5 December 2016}}</ref>|| Scotland ([[Cupar]])

|1870||Organization||The [[British Red Cross]] is founded.<ref>{{cite web|title=The founding of the British Red Cross|url=http://www.redcross.org.uk/About-us/Who-we-are/Museum-and-archives/Historical-factsheets/The-founding-of-the-British-Red-Cross|accessdate=8 November 2016}}</ref>||

|1888||Achievement||[[Murdoch Cameron]] performs the first Caesarean section at the [[Glasgow Royal Maternity Hospital]] using modern antiseptic conditions<ref>{{cite book|last1=Dunn|first1=Etta|title=Central Glasgow Through Time|date=2014|publisher=Amberley Publishing|location=Gloucestershire|isbn=978-1-4456-3870-6|page=50}}</ref>||Scotland ([[Glasgow]])

|1904||Organization||[[Adamson Hospital]] is founded.<ref>{{cite web|title=Adamson h|url=http://www.nhsfife.org/nhs/index.cfm?fuseaction=nhs.facilitydisplay&p2sid=A59AF47D-ECD5-E65D-6E21850AC1CCE2B5&themeid=E4689E2B-5056-8C6F-C0BF8FA7CD6A38D0|accessdate=2 December 2016}}</ref>||Scotland ([[Cupar]])

|1909||Organization||The [[Institute of Cancer Research]] is founded as a [[Public university|public]] [[research institute]] and [[university]]. In 2003 the ICR joined the [[University of London]]. A number of breakthrough discoveries have taken place in the ICR, including that the basic cause of cancer is damage to [[DNA]].<ref>{{cite web|title=ICR|url=https://www.on-course.eu/providers/the-institute-of-cancer-research/|accessdate=23 November 2016}}</ref>||England (London)

|1911||Policy||The [[National Insurance Act 1911]] is assented, with the longer title ''An Act to provide for Insurance against Loss of Health and for the Prevention and Cure of Sickness and for Insurance against Unemployment, and for purposes incidental thereto''. It provides for the compulsory insurance of lower paid workers and set a fixed capitation fee for doctors.<ref name="National Health Insurance">{{cite web|title=National Health Insurance|url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/cabinetpapers/themes/national-health-insurance.htm|accessdate=7 November 2016}}</ref>||[[England]], [[Wales]], [[Scotland]], [[Northern Ireland]]

|1913||Organization||The [[Highlands and Islands Medical Service]] (HIMS) is established. It is directly funded by the state and administered centrally by the Scottish Office in Edinburgh working with local committees. Though treatment is not free, fees are set at minimal levels and people can still get treated even if they are unable to pay.<ref>{{cite web|title=Highlands and Islands Medical Service (HIMS)|url=http://www.ournhsscotland.com/history/birth-nhs-scotland/highlands-and-islands-medical-service|accessdate=11 November 2016}}</ref>||[[Scotland]]

|1914||Organization||[[Alder Hey Children's Hospital]] is founded. Today it is a major national [[children's hospital]] and [[NHS foundation trust]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Alder Hey Children's Hospital|url=http://www.alderhey.nhs.uk/about-us/100years/|accessdate=22 November 2016}}</ref>||England ([[Liverpool]])

|1925||Organization||Aldeburgh Cottage Nursing Association is founded. Now renamed [[Aldeburgh Cottage Hospital]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Aldenburgh|url=https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/details.asp?id=563|accessdate=22 November 2016}}</ref>||England ([[Aldeburgh]])

|1940||Development||First use of the wonder drug Penicillin on a large scale takes place at [[RAF Halton|RAF Hospital Halton]].<ref>{{cite web|title=RAF Hospital Halton|url=http://www.raf.mod.uk/PMRAFNS/history/rafhospitalhalton.cfm|accessdate=11 November 2016}}</ref>||  

|1946–1948||Organization||A respective [[National Health Service]] (NHS) is founded across the countries of the United Kingdom: [[NHS England]], [[NHS Scotland]], [[NHS Wales]], and the [[Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland]]. For the first time, hospitals, doctors, nurses, pharmacists, opticians and dentists are brought together under one organization to provide services that are free for all at the point of delivery. Today, the NHS is responsible for the public healthcare sector of the United Kingdom.<ref name="The UK Health Care System"/><ref name="The history of the NHS in England" />||

|1947||Organization||[[Bupa]] is founded. Today an international healthcare group, it is the single largest British health insurance company in United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite web|title=Bupa|url=http://www.bupa-medical.com/brochures/bwho/Introduction-to-Bupa-Worldwide-Health-Options.pdf|accessdate=23 November 2016}}</ref><ref name="The UK Health Care System" />||England (London)

|1948||Policy||Park Hospital (now [[Trafford General Hospital]]) becomes the first hospital in the world to offer free healthcare to all.<ref>{{cite web|title=Trafford General: where it all began|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/content/articles/2008/07/03/nhs60_trafford_general_hospital_feature.shtml|accessdate=11 November 2016}}</ref>||England ([[Trafford]])

|1950–1955||Organization||The [[National Health Service Central Register (Scotland)|National Health Service Central Register (NHSCR)]] is created to facilitate the transfer of patients between [[NHS Scotland|Health Board]] areas or across borders within the countries of the [[United Kingdom]].<ref>{{cite web|title=National Health Service Central Register (NHSCR)|url=http://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/statistics-and-data/nhs-central-register/about-the-register/the-history-of-the-register|accessdate=8 November 2016}}</ref>||[[Scotland]]

|1952||Organization||The [[Royal College of General Practitioners]] is established. It is the professional body for [[general practitioners|general (medical) practitioners]] (GPs/[[Family Physicians]]/[[Primary care physician|Primary Care Physicians]]) in the [[United Kingdom]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Royal College of General Practitioners|url=http://www.rcgp.org.uk/about-us/history-heritage-and-archive/history-of-the-college.aspx|accessdate=11 November 2016}}</ref>||

|1958||Campaign||The [[National Health Insurance]] introduces [[polio]] and [[diphtheria]] vaccines in its plan to promote good health instead of merely treating illness. This program ensures everyone under the age of 15 is vaccinated and will lead to an immediate and dramatic reduction in cases of both diseases.<ref name="The history of the NHS in England" />||  

|1960||Achievement||The first kidney transplant in the [[United Kingdom]] takes place at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, involving an identical set of 49-year-old twins. The procedure becomes successful, with both donor and recipient living for a further six years before dying of an unrelated illness.<ref name="The history of the NHS in England" />||Scotland ([[Edinburgh]])

|1962||||Minister of Health [[Enoch Powell]]’s Hospital Plan recommends the development of district general hospitals covering populations of around 125,000.<ref name="The history of NHS reform" />||

|1968||Development||[[South Africa]]-born surgeon [[Donald Ross (surgeon)|Donald Ross]], leading a team of 18 doctors and nurses, performs the first heart transplant in the United Kingdom.<ref name="The history of the NHS in England" />||

|1970||Organization||[[Airedale General Hospital]] is founded.<ref>{{cite web|title=Airedale General Hospital|url=http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/8023420.Hospital_must_remain_open/|accessdate=22 November 2016}}</ref>||England ([[Steeton with Eastburn]])

|1972||Development||The first commercially viable [[CT scan]]ner is developed by Sir [[Godfrey Hounsfield]], at [[EMI]] Central Research Laboratories using X-rays. CT scans revolutionize the way doctors examine the body.<ref>{{cite journal | last = Richmond | first = Caroline | title = Obituary – Sir Godfrey Hounsfield | journal = BMJ | volume = 329 |issue=7467 |pages=687 | year=2004 | doi =  10.1136/bmj.329.7467.687| id = }}</ref><ref name="The history of the NHS in England" />||England ([[Hayes, Hillingdon]])

|1974||Organization||[[Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital]] is founded.<ref>{{cite web|title=Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital|url=http://www.hampshirehospitals.nhs.uk/about-us/our-hospitals/basingstoke-and-north-hampshire-hospital/|accessdate=22 November 2016}}</ref>||England ([[Basingstoke]])

|1976||Organization||[[York Hospital]] is founded.<ref>{{cite web|title=York Hospital|url=https://borthcat.york.ac.uk/index.php/york-district-hospital|accessdate=22 November 2016}}</ref>||England ([[York]])

|1978||Organization||[[International Hospitals Group]] is founded as a healthcare services company.<ref>{{cite web|title=IHG History|url=http://www.ihg.co.uk/ihg-history.html|accessdate=5 December 2016}}</ref>||England ([[Buckinghamshire]])

|1978||Development||British gynaecologist [[Patrick Steptoe]], at [[Oldham General Hospital]], and physiologist [[Robert Edwards (physiologist)|Robert Edwards]], at [[Cambridge University]], develop a new technique to fertilize an egg outside a woman's body before replacing it in the womb. This technique leads to the world's first baby born as a result of in vitro fertilisation (IVF).<ref name="The history of the NHS in England" />||

|1979||Development||British professor [[Roland Levinsky]] performs the first successful bone marrow transplant in the country on a child with primary immunodeficiency, at [[Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children]].<ref name="The history of the NHS in England" />||

|1982||Organization||[[Care UK]] is founded. It provides health and social care.<ref>{{cite web|title=Care UK|url=http://www.careukgroup.com/sites/group/files/CareUK_An_Overview_0.pdf|accessdate=5 December 2016}}</ref>||

|1983||Policy||[[Medical Act 1983]] is enacted in order to consolidate the Medical Acts 1956 to 1978 and certain related provisions, with amendments to give effect to recommendations of the Law Commission and the [[Scottish Law Commission]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Medical Act 1983|url=http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1983/54/introduction|accessdate=11 November 2016}}</ref>||

|1986||Campaign||The first AIDS health campaign is organized in the [[United Kingdom]]. This campaign is in line with the original [[National Health Service]] intention to improve health and prevent disease, as well as offer treatment.<ref name="The history of the NHS in England" />||

|1987||Development||British professor Sir [[Roy Yorke Calne]] and Professor John Wallwork perform the world's first liver, heart and lung transplant at [[Papworth Hospital]].<ref name="The history of the NHS in England" />||England ([[Cambridge]])

|1988||Technology launch||Routine newborn hearing screening with [[otoacoustic emission]] (OAE) is first introduced at [[Whipps Cross University Hospital]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Hearing Screening|url=https://www.hawaii.edu/medicine/pediatrics/pedtext/s01c05.html|accessdate=11 November 2016}}</ref>||England (London)

|1989||Organization||[[Alliance Medical]] is founded as an independent radiology services company. Alliance MEdical is a private provider of [[National health service|NHS]] services.<ref>{{cite web|title=Alliance Medical|url=http://www.alliancemedical.com/who-we-are/our-story|accessdate=5 December 2016}}</ref>||  

|1991||Organization||[[Hayward Medical Communications]] is founded as a full service medical communications agency.<ref>{{cite web|title=Hayward Medical Communications|url=http://www.hayward.co.uk/company-profile/|accessdate=5 December 2016}}</ref>||England (London)

|1991||Policy||The [[Patient's Charter]] is launched as a document by the government of the United Kingdom. The charter sets out patients' rights for the first time and the standards which will be set nationally and locally by the health service, including the first waiting time guarantees.<ref>{{cite web|title=1991 - PMQT Written Answers 16th December 1991|url=http://www.johnmajor.co.uk/page1718.html|accessdate=3 December 2016}}</ref>||

|1992||Organization||[[Healthcare at Home]] is founded as a pharmaceutical supplier.<ref>{{cite web|title=Healthcare at Home|url=https://www.hah.co.uk/about-us/company-background/|accessdate=5 December 2016}}</ref>||England ([[Burton on Trent]])  

|1993||Organization||[[General Healthcare Group]] is founded. It owns [[BMI Healthcare]] which runs around 70 hospitals nationwide.<ref>{{cite web|title=Company Overview of General Healthcare Group Limited|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=127587|accessdate=5 December 2016}}</ref>||England (London)  

|1995||Organization||[[Premier Medical Group]] is founded as a healthcare company. It provides expert opinions for the legal and insurance industries.<ref>{{cite web|title=Premier Medical Group|url=http://www.theleafchronicle.com/story/news/local/clarksville/2014/08/21/clarksville-premier-medical-group-groundbreaking-ceremony/14375759/|accessdate=5 December 2016}}</ref>||England (London)

|1995||Organization||[[Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry]]  is formed by a merger of [[St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College]] and the [[London Hospital Medical College]] with [[Queen Mary and Westfield College]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry|url=http://www.smd.qmul.ac.uk/about/history/index.html|accessdate=11 November 2016}}</ref>||England (London)

|1998||Organization||[[National Health Service|NHS]] Direct is established as a national health line in order to provide expert health advice and information.<ref>{{cite web|title=NHS Direct|url=http://www.politics.co.uk/reference/nhs-direct|accessdate=11 November 2016}}</ref>||

|1999||Organization||The Scottish Executive Health Department (SEHD) is created from the former Scottish Office Health Department (SOHD).||[[Scotland]]  

|2000||Organization||The first [[Ayurveda|Ayurvedic]] hospital outside [[India]] is founded.<ref>{{cite news|title=Hospital offers ancient healing|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/808364.stm|accessdate=11 November 2016|agency=BBC News}}</ref>||[[London]], [[United Kingdom]]

|2000||Organization||[[University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust]] is established with the merger of the [[Leicester General Hospital]], [[Glenfield Hospital]] and [[Leicester Royal Infirmary]].<ref>{{cite web|title=University Hospitals Of Leicester NHS Trust|url=http://www.nhs.uk/Services/Trusts/Overview/DefaultView.aspx?id=2186|accessdate=22 November 2016}}</ref>||England ([[Leicester]])

|2001||Organization||[[Bristol Royal Hospital for Children]] is founded.<ref>{{cite web|title=Bristol Royal Hospital for Children|url=http://www.uhbristol.nhs.uk/patients-and-visitors/your-hospitals/bristol-royal-hospital-for-children/|accessdate=22 November 2016}}</ref>||England ([[Bristol]])

|2002||Organization||[[ID Medical Group Ltd]] is founded as a healthcare recruitment company.<ref>{{cite web|title=Id Medical Group Limited|url=https://www.endole.co.uk/company/03829536/id-medical-group-limited|accessdate=5 December 2016}}</ref>||England ([[Milton Keynes]])

|2006||Organization||[[NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde]] is created as a [[NHS board]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Report to NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde|url=http://www.equalitiesinhealth.org/Link-Files/Smart-metrics.pdf.pdf|accessdate=23 November 2016}}</ref>||[[Scotland]]

|2006||Organization||[[St Andrews Community Hospital]] is founded.<ref>{{cite web|title=St Andrews Community Hospital|url=http://www.nhsfife.org/nhs/index.cfm?fuseaction=nhs.facilitydisplay&p2sid=A59B835F-9595-4B6E-B780DBB4AD79EDD6&themeid=E4689E2B-5056-8C6F-C0BF8FA7CD6A38D0|accessdate=2 December 2016}}</ref>||Scotland (St Andrews)

|2007||Organization||[[Spire Healthcare]] is founded as a private healthcare provider.<ref>{{cite web|title=Spire Healthcare|url=http://investors.spirehealthcare.com/about/our-history/|accessdate=5 December 2016}}</ref>||England (London)

|2013||Organization||[[Genomics England]] is established in order to run the [[100,000 Genomes Project]], with the purpose of sequencing 100,000 genomes from [[National Health Service|NHS]] patients with a rare disease and their families, and patients with cancer.<ref>{{cite web|title=Genomics England|url=https://www.genomicsengland.co.uk/about-genomics-england/how-we-work/|accessdate=23 November 2016}}</ref>||

|2015||Organization||[[Queen Elizabeth University Hospital]] is founded. It is one of the largest acute hospitals in the UK.<ref>{{cite web|title=New South Glasgow hospital named after Queen Elizabeth|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-33384988|website=BBC News|accessdate=5 December 2016|date=3 July 2015}}</ref>||Scotland ([[Glasgow]])

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* [[Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland]]

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