The National Health Service (NHS) is the publicly funded health care system of the United Kingdom. The organisation provides the majority of healthcare in the UK, from general practitioners to Accident and Emergency Departments, long-term healthcare and dentistry. It was founded in 1948 and has become an integral part of British society, culture and everyday life: the NHS was once described by Nigel Lawson, former Chancellor of the Exchequer, as 'the national religion'. Private health care has continued parallel to the NHS, paid for largely by private insurance, but it is used only by a small percentage of the population, and generally as a top-up to NHS services.
NHS services are largely "free at the point of delivery", paid for by taxes; the NHS's budget for 2005-06 is over £80 billion. Employing well over 1 million people, the NHS is one of the largest employers in the world, (believed to be third or fifth, according to different commentators).
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