Editing Economy of the United Kingdom (section)

====Education, health and social work====
{{Main|Education in the United Kingdom|Healthcare in the United Kingdom}}
[[File:Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, England-7March2011.jpg|thumb|The [[Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham]] is a university hospital affiliated with the [[University of Birmingham]]. It has the largest single-floor [[critical care unit]] in the world.]]

According to The Blue Book 2013 the education sector added a gross value of £84.6&nbsp;billion in 2011 whilst human health and social work activities added £104.0&nbsp;billion in 2011.<ref name="ons.gov.uk"/>

In the UK the majority of the healthcare sector consists of the state funded and operated [[National Health Service]] (NHS), which accounts for over 80% of all healthcare spending in the UK and has a workforce of around 1.7&nbsp;million, making it the largest employer in Europe, and putting it amongst the largest employers in the world.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17429786 | work=BBC News | title=Which is the world's biggest employer? | date=20 March 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2000/nov/19/socialcare.policy|title=Labour gets into bed with private medicine|access-date=11 November 2010|work=The Guardian| date=19 November 2000|location=London}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKL0268287920080703|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201027221245/https://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKL0268287920080703|url-status=dead|archive-date=27 October 2020|title=At 60, the NHS needs reality check|access-date=11 November 2010|work=Reuters| date=3 July 2008}}</ref> The NHS operates independently in each of the four [[Countries of the United Kingdom|constituent countries]] of the UK. The [[NHS in England]] is by far the largest of the four parts and had a turnover of £92.5&nbsp;billion in 2008.<ref name="budget2008correction">{{cite web|author=HM Treasury |title=Budget 2008, Corrections to Table C11 |date=24 March 2008 |url=http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/d/bud08_corrections.pdf |access-date=27 December 2008 |page=1 |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090225001228/http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/d/bud08_corrections.pdf |archive-date=25 February 2009 }}</ref>

In 2007/08 higher education institutions in the UK had a total income of £23&nbsp;billion and employed a total of 169,995 staff.<ref name=uukfacts>{{cite web|url=http://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/Publications/Documents/Facts09.pdf |title=Higher education in facts and figures – Summer 2009 |access-date=29 January 2011 |publisher=Universities UK |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100215010603/https://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/Publications/Documents/Facts09.pdf |archive-date=15 February 2010 }}</ref> In 2007/08 there were 2,306,000 higher education students in the UK (1,922,180 in England, 210,180 in Scotland, 125,540 in Wales and 48,200 in Northern Ireland).<ref name=uukfacts/>