Celebrating heroes 👏 To our incredible NHS and key workers, thank you 💙🌈 | Better

Not sure what to do when you’re unwell? ✅ Use NHS Inform’s symptom checker & self-help guides: nhsinform.scot/symptoms-and-self-help ✅ Visit your local pharmacist for advice & treatment for minor illnesses like cold sores, indigestion, constipation, impetigo & UTIs: https://services.nhslothian.scot/pharmacies/pharmacy-first-scotland/ | NHS Lothian

Feeling unwell? Get the advice you need quickly and easily with NHS 24’s digital services. Using online symptom checkers, you’ll get all the right answers from the experts at NHS 24. Visit www.nhsinform.scot/winter to find out more. | NHS Grampian

This week (and always), please remember that 999 is the number to dial when it’s a life-threatening emergency. For everything else, use our symptom checker online at 111.nhs.uk or, for children under five, give us a call. | North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust

On this day in 1948, the NHS was born. Watch to see the story of how the NHS was formed and a variety of collections around the health care sector to explore on Ancestry®. We want to celebrate and thank all the amazing NHS employees from our past and present. Fun fact - Did you know that from 1948, the 1939 England and Wales Register acted as the basis for the National Health Service Register in post war Britain? Head over to the comment section for the links to the collections featured. | Ances

The UK’s National Health Service was formed in 1948 and now celebrations to mark its 72nd anniversary show that it is as important as ever to the country. #NHS workers are being remembered for the way they helped out in the fight against #coronavirus. Here is a timeline of the key events in its history. | CGTNEurope

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