so you are interested in working for the nhs – some interesting facts

So you are interested in working for the NHS – some interesting facts.

Over 350 Different Jobs, Careers and Professions• Doctor • Plumber • Porters • Lab Assistance

• Chef • Teacher • Mechanic • Gardener

• Nurse • Play Leader • Hairdresser • ECG Technician

• Receptionist • Clerk • Phlebotomist • Cleaner

• Driver • Dental Nurse • Builder • Physiotherapist

• Library Assit. • Security • It Manager • Estate Manager

History of the NHS• The NHS is based on the ideal that good health care

should be available to everyone ‘free at the point of delivery’

• Aneurin Bevan officially ‘started’ the National Health Service on July 5 1948 – making the announcement at Park Hospital, Manchester

Little Known Facts About the NHS

• The NHS is the fourth largest employerin the world and the largest employerhere in the North West

•Who are the top 3?

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army

The Indian Railways

Walmart

Little Known Facts About the NHS

• The NHS employs more than 1.3 million people in England

• This means that an average of 1 in every 27 people nationally work in the NHS

• Around 77% of the workforce is female

• There are over 100 volunteering roles

• 25% of the workforce are Nursesbut 75% are not!

Little Known Facts About the NHS

• Staff across the NHS are in contact with more than 1.5 million patients and their families every day

• Approximately 170,000 people go for an eyesight test each week

• The NHS helps to deliver an average of 791,000 babiesa year

• Each month 23 million people visit their GPs surgery or practice nurse

• In a typical week, 1.4 million people will receive help in their home from the NHS  

Little Known Facts About the NHS• 835,000 people visit their GP practice every day

• NHS chiropodists inspect more than 150,000 pairs of feet every week

• NHS Direct receives 18,000 calls a day

• The NHS Ambulance Service receives 8.08 million emergency calls a year with 6.61 million resulting in an emergency response

• Community pharmacies dispense onaverage 926.7 million prescriptions a year

Little Known Facts About the NHS• The oldest person in the world to have a hip replacement was 101

years old, and treated at Good Hope Hospital in theWest Midlands, over 89,000 hip replacements carried out in the NHS every year.

• Britain’s first sextuplets were born to Sheila Thorn at Birmingham Maternity Hospital in 1968

• When Louise Joy Brown was born at Oldham Hospital in the NW on July 25 1978 she was the first baby in world to be born following her mother having undergone IVF treatment

Little Known Facts About the NHS

•The first heart transplant in the UK took place on theMay 3 1968 at the National Heart Hospital in Marylebone, London. In 2009/10, 3,709 heart transplants had been carried out in the UK

•Since the introduction of the NHS in 1948 both men and women live an average of 10 years longer than they did

Interesting Facts about the Human Body•The four taste zones on your tongue are bitter (back), sour

(back sides), salty (front sides), and sweet (front)•The five senses are sight, hearing, smell, touch, and taste•Your body contains eight pints of blood•You use 14 muscles to smile and 43 to frown•The strongest muscle of the body is the masseter muscle,

which is located in the jaw•Children have 20 first teeth, adults have 32 teeth•Your body is 70 percent water

Interesting Facts about the Human Body

• When you sneeze, air rushes through your nose at a rate

of 100 mph

• Your heart beats about 100,000 times a day

• The average human produces 50,000 pints of spit in a

lifetime! And that’s enough to fill 2 swimming pools – yuk!!

• If you produced wind for 6 years 9 months you would

produce enough gas for an atomic bomb – double yuk!!!

• The female heart beats faster than the male heart

• Your mouth carries more bacteria than your armpit

How Do I Get More Information

NHS

www.jobs.nhs.ukwww.nhscareers.nhs.uk www.stepintothenhs.nhs.uk www.medicalcareers.nhs.uk http://nursing.nhscareers.nhs.uk www.whatcanidowithmydegree.nhs.u

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Skills for HealthAcademy North west.0151 482 5678

Apprenticeships

www.apprenticeships.org.uk

www.skillsforhealth.org.uk

https://apprenticeshipvacancymatchingservice.lsc.gov.uk/navms/Forms/Candidate/Apprenticeships.aspx

Thank you – any questions!