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After the research on NICE and the technology appraisals had been conducted I needed to focus on how the quality of care provided by the NHS is affected by the decisions made by NICE. I started researching the Cancer Drugs Fund and trying to obtain some data from their web page on the NHS website, along with other cancer treatment websites such as Macmillan Cancer Support and Cancer Research UK. The Macmillan Cancer Support website provided me with an interesting paper produced that presented the lower survival rates of lung cancer in the UK, compared to other European countries such as Norway. This spurred me onto to do some more research into the survival rates of cancer patients in the UK compared other EU countries, hoping to use it as a barometer of the quality of care provided by the NHS.
I found a report documenting the survival rates of various cancer types for the UK and Ireland, Northern European average, Eastern European average, Central European average and the overall European average. This report was found on the Lancet Oncology website as one of their articles. It was a very helpful, informative paper, the main advantage of using the data is because in the majority of the other papers I looked at was that the data is grouped according to the patient’s ethnicity and not the country of residence. This makes sense from a pharmacokinetics (the metabolism of the drug) perspective to understand the reactions of ethnic groups to the oncology
The National Health System began in 1948 with the aim to provide free health care for the English thus removing health access inequities. This essay considers two strengths of the NHS, being free health and locally responsive health care and two weaknesses being the financial burden and unprecedented pressure on health care resources.
NHS is an organization made up of students who regularly demonstrate the four pillars of NHS: Character, Leadership, Scholarship, and Service. Saydel’s chapter of NHS should model outstanding service and leadership within our school and community. Doing so will create a positive environment amongst our community members and students. Utilizing my strong leadership abilities, I believe I can help our chapter of NHS flourish. My strength in organization, self-determination, and ability to engage others will make me a great asset to our NHS
It is an honor to be considered for NHS. To me NHS is a place where gifted individuals can continue to grow as people and polish their talents. As a past NJHS member, I would like to find myself in NHS.
North Central Health District website, 2013). The cancer mortality rate has been on the decline
Scholarship, service, leadership, and character; these are the four pillars of NHS, and these are four things that are taken into consideration when finding new candidates for NHS. In every class, some people automatically can’t try because they don’t meet the scholarship requirement. Then more people are taken out because they don’t meet the character requirements. Even more people are taken out because they haven’t spent enough time doing community service, and then more because they don’t have much experience as a leader. After all of this, you are left with a select few people who make it to the interview, and I believe I should be one of those few. With high grades, multiple weeks in which I have served, more than one leadership position,
This simple image depicts the direction not only the NHS is heading, but the entire world. This direction is toward a more technologically advanced future, with increased efficiency and reliability throughout. The NHS is one of the largest organisations in the UK and boasts the highest employment rate of people within the IT sector. This leads to the question of what these IT personnel are doing and what technology they are bringing to the NHS to improve productivity. It is evident through campaigns such as the one in the previous image that the NHS is attempting to modernise alongside technology but what technology is truly used isn’t largely public knowledge, this is where this report attempts to bridge the gap, allowing the public greater knowledge to the inner workings of the NHS. This report also allows for the NHS to understand what technologies are working well within the organisation alongside those which aren’t working so well, so they are able to work with this for future improvements.
Outline how you could review quality in a health or social care agency. Discuss reflectively the criteria you have used, identifying dilemmas and opportunities to work towards 'best practice '.
I feel that I would be a very positive contribution to the Antlers Chapter of the NHS. If I were to be elected as an officer, I would do my best to lead the NHS chapter in a direction that would improve the group as a whole. I feel that I would be beneficial to the chapter, because I know what it takes to be a leader. To be a leader, you need three important qualities. Three qualities you need to portray are confidence, persistence, and responsibility. I’ve been in several leadership positions that acquired these qualities, and the NHS needs officers with these three qualities for many reasons. To begin, an officer needs confidence. I’ve had to obtain confidence in my leadership position as a section leader in band. I’ve been section leader
This essay aims to discuss the organisational structure of the NHS in Wales applying relevant management and organisational theory. The essay includes the traits and contingency approaches which is linked to leadership and management. In addition to this, it covers how the NHS implies leadership and management into their organisational structure. In similar to this, the improvement the NHS in Wales tend to make, will be discussed.
The NHS itself originally came around in the year 1948 and was launched by Aneurin Bevan. It was all based on 3 principles which were; firstly to provide hospital services, secondly to provide primary care; family doctor services and finally community services such as maternity and child welfare clinics, health visitors, midwives, health education, vaccinations, immunisations and ambulance services. (Beryl Stretch, 2007)
Individuals with learning disabilities used to be separated from society in institutions, long-stay hospitals and workhouses to be cared for, their independence was taken away and decisions were made for them by their care provider, which is now recognised as depriving their liberty. Care providers are now led by legislation, codes of conduct, policies and procedures to protect their liberty, human rights and provide equality and individualised person centred care. By looking at past ways of working, care providers are able to identify what was wrong in the service provision and identify ways of improvement to meet modern standards of care. This has helped to change the attitudes and beliefs within society, improving the individuals experiences
Lifestyle choices such as smoking, drinking alcohol, poor diet and lack of physical exercise have many diseases associated with them. In 2006-07, patients with these diseases cost the NHS a combined total of £18.4bn (Scarborough et al. 2011). If the NHS limited treatment to these groups of people, it would be able to invest this money into other areas of need. This could lead to improved facilities for people who become ill through no fault of their own.
In 2000, an effort was made by the UK government to resolve certain inequalities that had developed within the NHS by releasing the “NHS Plan of 2000.” This plan greatly increased spending on employee pay, infrastructure, and access to services. Despite almost doubling spending in a ten year period,
Some hospital trusts and health authorities consistently outperform others on different dimensions of performance. Why? There is some evidence that “management matters”, as well as the combined efforts of individual clinicians and teams. However, studies that have been conducted on the link between the organisation
Quality is one of the most essential elements of healthcare. As stated by the Agency of Health Research and Quality, “Everyday, millions of Americans receive high-quality health care that helps to maintain or restore their health and ability to function” (Agency of Health Research and Quality, 2014). Improvements have become vital to the success of health care organizations and in the Healthcare Quality Book, it is explained that quality in the U.S. healthcare system is not at the standard that it should be (Ransom, Joshi, Nash & Ransom, 2008). Although this has been a reoccurring issue, attempts to fix the insufficiency have been less successful than expected.