12 JUN 2022 · The NHS NHS provides the majority of healthcare in the UK, it’s important to know why it’s good to have, how it works, and what can be done to help it. The NHS is publicly funded; this means that rather than the government paying for the entirety of its resources, hospitals, stock, salaries and equipment, we, the public pay for it instead. They gain money from tax amongst other incomes, but when this is all added together, the sum can be quite large.