What is NHS? Is this some kind of Government Body, regulating what?

Question

What is NHS? What it stands for? Is this some sort of Government Regulating body? Regulating What?

Answer 1

http://www.nhs.uk/aboutnhs/Pages/About.a...

Answer 2

National Health Services is the universal health care system in the the United Kingdom. It was established 1948 by the British Government, and is publicly funded.

It provides free basic health care, dental, long term care as well as preventative health care, at no cost for all Residents of the UK, including visitors to.

It operates on the principle that all are (both tax payers and non tax payers) entitled to free health care, provided by the government to ensures that all residents are provided with full adequate easy to access public health care at no cost to the patients. The NHS also provides subsidized prescriptions for everyone.