Coordinates: 54°32′24″N 5°54′18″W / 54.540°N 5.905°W / 54.540; -5.905 The Belfast Trust is a Health and Social Care Trust covering Belfast, Northern Ireland. The Trust is one of five new NHS trusts which were created on 1 April 2007 by the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety (DHSSPS). The Belfast Trust employs 22,000 staff and assumes responsibility for services to over 340,000 patients, previously provided by Belfast City Hospital, The Royal Hospitals, the Mater Hospital, Greenpark Healthcare Trust, North and West Belfast and South and East Belfast HSS Trusts.
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—J.L. (John Langshaw)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Specialization is a feature of every complex organization, be it social or natural, a school system, garden, book, or mammalian body.”
—Catharine R. Stimpson (b. 1936)
“You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.”
—Clare Boothe Luce (1903–1987)
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—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)