• 50p Coin Design Since its issue, 50p coins have commonly been used to commemorate important events. From as early as 1969, The Royal Mint have regularly issued unique reverse designs on the 50p for events such as the 50 th anniversary of the D-Day landings, 50 th anniversary of the NHS and the 2012 London Olympic Games.
• The British decimal fifty pence (50p) coin – often informally pronounced fifty pee – is a unit of currency equalling one half of a pound sterling.It is a seven-sided coin formed as an equilateral-curve heptagon, or Reuleaux polygon, a curve of constant width, meaning that the diameter is constant across any bisection.
• More about the NHS 50p The National Health Service (NHS) was formed in 1948 to be free at the point of delivery.

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The winners have now been selected! Their designs have been brought to life on virtual 50p coins, which you can see in this video:

Elderly NHS patients hit by 'rip off' 50p-a-minute charges to call hospitals, warn critics Hospedia installs phone and TV services in hospitals for free in return for keeping money charged to. Introducing the NHS 50p Coin To remember the 50 th anniversary of the National Health Service, the Royal Mint released this commemorative 50p coin in 1998. The National Health Service was started 5 July 1948 by Aneurin Bevan, the Health.

We all know what an incredible job our doctors, nurses, paramedics – indeed all our fabulous Key Workers are doing to help us through this challenging time.

So much so that last night, people all across the UK leaned out of their windows or stood at their doors to applaud our heroes for their hard work

And now we’re calling all our Change Checker Juniors to design a 50p just for them, as another way to show appreciation.

Nhs 50p Coin

If you’d like to get involved, all you need to do is follow these simple steps:

1. Download this PDF and print it out.

2. Create your Key Worker Heroes design and fill in the details on the page. You can take inspiration from the UK 50ps listed on our web app!

3. Photograph your design.

4. Post a photo of your design in the comments on this Facebook post

The TOP 5 designs will be brought to life in an animation and featured in a Change Checker video, which will be available to watch on the 13th April.

Entries close at 9am on Thursday 9th April, so don’t delay!

Best of luck and happy designing!

The Welsh Government will introduce a minimum unit price for alcohol of 50p from 2 March 2020, with regulations today being approved by the National Assembly for Wales.

The Public Health (Minimum Price for Alcohol) (Wales) Act 2018 will mean that it will be an offence for alcohol to be supplied below that price in Wales.

In Wales there are 60,000 admissions to hospital every year, because of alcohol. Alcohol costs the NHS £159 million annually. In 2018, there were 535 alcohol-related deaths in Wales.

The new law supports the Welsh Government’s comprehensive work to tackle harmful and hazardous drinking by tackling the availability and affordability of cheap, strong alcohol, which is part of wider efforts to improve and protect the health of the population of Wales.

Research estimates that introducing a 50p minimum unit price (MUP) would:

• result in 66 fewer deaths and 1,281 fewer hospital admissions in Wales per year
• would save the Welsh NHS more than £90 million over 20 years, in direct healthcare costs
• would reduce workplace absence, which is estimated to fall by up to 9,800 days per year
• over a 20 year period, the introduction of a MUP could contribute £783 million to the Welsh economy in terms of the reduction in alcohol-related illness, crime and workplace absence.

A recent report from a consortium of researchers including Figure 8 Consultancy Services Ltd, the University of South Wales and Glyndwr University has shown the introduction of a 50p minimum unit price for alcohol in Wales is unlikely to see drinkers switching to other substances or drugs. This is something which will be monitored closely once the legislation is implemented.

The Welsh Government is working with service providers and healthcare professionals to ensure information about the policy is available, and the appropriate services are in place to support people. A national communications campaign will also launch ahead of the introduction of a minimum price for alcohol to make the public, retailers and those effected by the change aware.

Nhs 50th Anniversary 50p

Nhs 50p 1998 Worth

Health Minister, Vaughan Gething, said:

Nhs 50p Coins

“There is a very real and clear link between levels of excessive drinking and the availability of cheap alcohol. We believe the introduction of a minimum unit price will help reduce alcohol related harm and support people to drink responsibly. Scotland has seen a decline in the amount of alcohol that is consumed since the introduction of MUP and I hope that we will see similar results in Wales.”

Chief Medical Officer for Wales, Dr Frank Atherton said:

“We want to reduce alcohol related harm and deaths in Wales. Nearly 1 in 5 adults are drinking above the safe guideline of 14 units per week. Binge drinking a large quantity of cheap alcohol is particularly damaging on people’s health and has a huge impact on NHS resources. The introduction of an MUP aims to support the reduction of excess drinking and could help save many lives.”