About the NHS

The NHS was established in 1948 to offer everybody in the UK with health care based on their requirements, and not on their capability to pay. The NHS is appreciated throughout the world for the of care it offers to clients.

Although many people think of the NHS as being their regional healthcare facility, when you visit your dentist, your GP and even your regional pharmacist you might be talking to someone used by the NHS. And progressively there is increasingly more NHS staff whose work is not based in a hospital, but who operate in local health centres, GP practices and even in clients' own homes.

More individuals work for the NHS than any other organisation in the nation: 1.3 million individuals in England alone. That is around one in every forty individuals. You will probably know a minimum of someone who works for the NHS.

Individuals who work for the NHS might have tasks in scientific or non-clinical functions. Clinical functions supply care to clients, such as nursing, medicine, midwifery, along with a range of allied health professions such as physiotherapy, radiography and counselling.

The lots of non-clinical functions in the NHS cover the functions required to keep the buildings clean and efficient and the organisation running smoothly. Non-clinical functions consist of receptionists, accounting professionals, IT professionals, caterers, engineers, designers and plumbings.