How to Use the National Health Service in a Sentence

the National Health Service

noun
  • Spending on defense, schools, the National Health Service and overseas aid has been ringfenced for now.
    — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Approval ratings for the National Health Service went from the highest on record to the lowest.
    — Foreign Affairs, 14 Jan. 2025
  • There was also positive news from the National Health Service.
    — Danica Kirka, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026
  • The hike in salary thresholds comes after a rise in the surcharge that migrants pay upfront to use the National Health Service.
    — Bycathleen O’Grady, science.org, 23 Apr. 2024
  • According to the National Health Service, womb cancer is most common in women who have been through menopause.
    — Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 12 Oct. 2025
  • There has been no windfall for the National Health Service and no drop in immigration, either.
    — William Booth, Washington Post, 12 June 2024
  • In Britain, nurses went on strike to protest staffing shortages and patient backlogs at the National Health Service.
    — Elisabeth Zerofsky, New York Times, 6 Mar. 2024
  • The state was running a deficit of a hundred and fifty-seven billion pounds—about one and a half times the budget of the National Health Service.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Unlike the National Health Service, social care is not free for most people, and is often hard to navigate.
    — Megan Specia, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2023
  • My employer, the National Health Service, couldn’t be more understanding.
    — Annie Lane, oregonlive, 3 July 2023
  • In Britain, local councils, not the National Health Service, are responsible for social care.
    — Mark Landler, New York Times, 16 July 2023
  • Waiting times at the National Health Service, which is depleted after years of fiscal austerity, stretched into months.
    — Mark Landler, New York Times, 22 May 2024
  • The goal is to get the device approved by regulators so that it can be prescribed by doctors through the National Health Service or Medicaid.
    — Amit Katwala, WIRED, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The introduction of a functioning social-care system to relieve pressure on the National Health Service.
    — Anand Menon, Time, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Peter is an entrepreneur and the son of Princess Anne, while Harriet is a nurse with the National Health Service.
    — Helen Murphy, PEOPLE, 6 Apr. 2026
  • This teaching hospital in central London is one of the 930 hospitals owned by the National Health Service.
    — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Their dissatisfaction emerges on almost every issue they are asked about, from the economy to education to the National Health Service.
    — Josh Holder, New York Times, 3 July 2024
  • The royal wore a cobalt blue Eponine coat dress for the solo outing, sporting the blue hue in tribute to the National Health Service (NHS).
    — Janine Henni, PEOPLE, 5 June 2026
  • That’s about 1,000 new cancer cases detected every day, according to the National Health Service.
    — Laurie Kellman, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Polls suggest the British electorate is most concerned with the cost of living, how to deal with migrants and asylum seekers, and the dire state of the National Health Service, which provides free treatment for all.
    — Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2024
  • His issue with Abigail concerns her political platform, which includes an investment in the National Health Service at the expense of the military.
    — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Chatfield offers specialized services to veterans through the National Health Service, making care more accessible.
    — Janine Henni, PEOPLE, 6 Nov. 2025
  • His decision has already made an impact, as the National Health Service said his announcement prompted a 1,000% surge in searches about prostate enlargement on its website.
    — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Seven and a half million people are waiting for elective care from the National Health Service, five million more than when the Conservatives took power in 2010.
    — Josh Holder, New York Times, 24 June 2024
  • Meanwhile, the government, already reeling from the costs of the pandemic, is having to find the cash to fund public-sector pay rises following extensive strikes in the National Health Service and elsewhere.
    — Roger Trapp, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
  • With the creation of the National Health Service in the late 1940s, medical romances were also a hot subgenre, and the doctors and nurses in those stories were reflected on the covers of their books.
    — Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 1 Aug. 2024
  • Taxation levels are approaching those seen during the Second World War, while beloved and vital state institutions such as the National Health Service are struggling after years of austerity cuts and budget squeezes.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, New Yorker, 25 June 2026
  • Parliament, the Royal Family, the National Health Service, the BBC, the Church of England, the police service and the media have all been rocked by scandals.
    — Ian King, CNBC, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Phillips, the son of Charles' sister Princess Anne, wed Harriet Sperling, a nurse working for the National Health Service, in a church ceremony in the southwestern English village of Kemble.
    — ABC News, 6 June 2026
  • In the six months since the bill’s last debate in parliament, more than 120,000 young adults have started smoking, claimed the letter, signed by the leaders of major hospitals, cancer charities, and branches of the National Health Service (NHS).
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN Money, 3 Nov. 2025

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