Founded in 1948, the NHS was created from the vision that good health care should be available to all, regardless of wealth. This is a vision that the organisation continues to work with today.

Some 65 million UK residents have access to health care and are able to take advantage of services that are free at the point of use.

The NHS employs more than 1.3 million people, including some 90,000 hospital doctors, 35,000 general practitioners (GPs), 400,000 nurses and 16,000 ambulance staff.

It is one of the world's biggest publicly funded health services and the single largest organisation in Europe.

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