About the NHS

The NHS was established in 1948 to supply everybody in the UK with health care based upon their needs, and not on their capability to pay. The NHS is appreciated throughout the world for the standard of care it offers to patients.

Although a lot of people think of the NHS as being their regional healthcare facility, when you visit your dental practitioner, your GP or even your regional pharmacist you might be speaking to someone used by the NHS. And significantly there is a growing number of NHS personnel whose work is not based in a medical facility, but who operate in regional health centres, GP practices or even in clients' own homes.

More people 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 people. You will probably understand a minimum of one individual who works for the NHS.