1 About the NHS
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The NHS was set up in 1948 to provide everyone in the UK with health care based upon their requirements, and not on their ability to pay. The NHS is respected throughout the world for the requirement of care it offers to clients.

Although the majority of individuals think of the NHS as being their regional medical facility, when you visit your dental practitioner, your GP or even your local pharmacist you might be speaking to someone utilized by the NHS. And increasingly there is more and more NHS staff whose work is not based in a health center, but who work in local health centres, GP practices or perhaps in patients' 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 most likely know at least someone who works for the NHS.

The individuals who work for the NHS may have jobs in clinical or non-clinical roles. Clinical functions offer care to patients, such as nursing, medicine, midwifery, in addition to a series of allied health professions such as physiotherapy, radiography and counselling.

The many non-clinical roles in the NHS cover the functions required to keep the buildings clean and effective and the organisation running smoothly. Non-clinical functions consist of receptionists, accounting professionals, IT experts, caterers, engineers, architects and plumbing professionals.

With over 350 various career opportunities, there is a role to fit all interests and credentials.

About NHS Health Careers

This site is provided by NHS Health Careers. NHS Health Careers, previously NHS Careers, was set up to motivate people to think about the joining the NHS group. We are devoted to offering help and details to individuals who have an interest in working in the NHS and other health companies in any among the 350 careers on deal. We can aid with info on what it is really like to work in health, how to begin in a profession in the NHS or on the training and study needed to get for various tasks.