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The National Health Service (NHS) is the publicly funded healthcare system for England (source: Wikipedia)

Putting that here because I was confused about what NHS was in the first place (I'm French).

There isn't really a single NHS - there are four National Health Services for the four parts of the UK (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Health_Service

The world's 5th largest employer (just after McDonald's)..

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