= (NHS)

The UK system of state-financed medical treatment, covering GP services, pharmaceuticals, hospitals, and dentistry. NHS treatment is available to all; some forms of treatment are charged for, with exemptions for children, pensioners, and those on very low incomes. The NHS makes some use of an internal market based on fund-holding GP practices and hospital trusts. Because of advances in medical technology and an ageing population, the NHS has to ration many forms of non-emergency treatment by queueing. Private and privately insured medical services are available as an alternative, but the NHS provides the great majority of UK medical treatment.

• contract, service
• contractual savings
• contradiction, proof by
• contribution, defined
• contributions, National Insurance
• contributory pension scheme
• control
• control of a company
• convenience, flag of
• Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species
• convergence
• convergence criteria
• convergent series
• convertibility
• convertible currency
• convertible debenture
• convexity
• co-operation
• co-operative society
• coordinates
• co-ordination failure
• co-ordination, policy
• copyright
• core
• core inflation