Communication Within the Nhs

One of the biggest obstacles to successful management of the NHS, and also to any analysis of its current well being, remains the significant lack of any valid information as to what the NHS does, how much it costs and where the money is spent. Indeed, it is perhaps surprising that 'the 1990 changes' were conceived and implemented as fast as they were, given the lack of information that was available in 1988. (Ham, 1996) Attempts were made at the start to ensure that hospitals began from a 'level playing field' so that they were in fair competition with one another, but the sometimes 10 fold differences in the early quoted costs for identical services in different hospitals had as much to do with differing costs of maintaining buildings

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.

Despite these obvious stumbling blocks, positives such as improved safety, choice and access to information still remain. Hence many arguments exist both in agreement and disagreement with the provision of this service. The NHS was also the fifth largest employer in the UK in 2015 – are the advantages worth sacrificing to eliminate the disadvantages? Focusing on the economic sustainably of the existence of the NHS, and its effects on society, the research in this dissertation should lead to a balanced conclusion regarding whether the

The National health services (NHS) provides a comprehensive healthcare services across the entire nation. It is considered to be UK’s proudest institution, and is envied by many other countries because of its free of cost health delivery to its population. Nevertheless, it is often seen as a ‘political football’ as it affects all of us in some way and hence everyone carry an opinion about it (Cass, 2006). Factors such as government policies, funding, number of service users, taxation etc all make up small parts of this large complex organisation. Therefore, any imbalances within one sector can pose a substantial risk on the overall NHS (Wheeler & Grice, 2000). This essay will discuss whether the NHS aim of reducing the nations need

Some of the key arguments that exist in today’s NHS are how it is organised and managed, and how it is to be funded. Should the government pay for it? Should the taxpayers pay for it? Or should it be privately run?

The NHS has grown to become the world’s largest publicly funded health service system since 1948(Nhs.uk, 2015).There are many issues and disputes in NHS. Nowadays,some people believe that the NHS should be abolished or privatized,because it can solve many issues with NHS.This essay agree that the NHS should not be abolished or privatized.

It has been widely accepted that rationing of the National Health Service (NHS) is paramount to maintaining and balancing public resources. In a utopian world it would be possible to provide every patient with every medical treatment that they would require, however this is not possible and therefore rationing has to be applied by local health authorities. Simply, there are not enough resources and medical staff available to keep up with the ever evolving demands of the public, and once more, these medical resources can’t at times tend to the needs of the medical advancements made every day. Some equipment and medicines are extremely costly and the NHS struggles to balance public budgets in the face of such advancements. One survey of a primary care trust in the NHS found that the panel that made that decision about funding new treatments was faced with applications that would have

Critically analyse one of the main challenges, barriers, and enablers for cultural competence in health care when working in a cross-cultural environment.

Believe that the NHS should not to be privatised but reformed to meet the challenges of the 21st century while remaining in the public sector. She pointed out that across the country, the NHS is selling off its land and buildings and closing its services. This is happening at an unprecedented rate which is switching NHS funds and services away from NHS services to the private sector. The total debt is £50bn rising to £90bn and will lock-in future governments and future taxpayers for many decades to come. The NHS currently pays £0.5bn pounds a year in PFI charges and this debt is set to quadruple to £2.3bn a year by 2010. The beneficiaries are the banks, the shareholders and the venture capitalists, the construction industry and facilities management. The losers are the service users, staff and the British public. (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2007/oct/04/thenewprofiteers)

Developments in new technologies, new treatments, and new drugs may improve the ability of the NHS as the supplier, but at the same time it encourages demand to level that requires significantly exceeds supply. This will create a long waiting list and will lead to a shortage of beds in the hospital. NHS privatization will cause prices to rise to reflect the true cost of supply. However, rising costs have forced a re-think on funding.

I have chosen to investigate the NHS Scotland deficit. The NHS stands for the National Health Service, which provides healthcare for all UK citizens based on their need for healthcare rather than their ability to pay for it. It is funded by taxes. The NHS Scotland 15bn deficit needs to be addressed as the service is over-stretched, underfunded and many believe that it will have an negative impact on society if it was to collapse. It is my belief that the NHS Scotland budget has not kept in line with the rising demand for the for services, such as – Obesity, Mental Health and the growing population. I believe that to increase NHS funding we need to realistically rethinking our funding strategies and raise the overall level of care while reducing avoidable expenditure . The NHS was founded on 5 July 1948 and I strongly believe that we should take care nurturing our national treasure.

The United Kingdom utilizes a national health service. This service is government owned and controlled. Most practitioners are employees of the government and hospitals are government run. Taxes provide nearly 80% of the funding for their health program. The remainders of the cost are covered by employee and employer contributions. Most providers and hospitals are public, although there is a small but growing private sector. The citizens of the United Kingdom pay nothing for visits to their physician or hospital stays. They also can choose which providers they want to visit and have “good access to primary care” (Hohman, 2006). The United Kingdom ranked number 18 in overall healthcare (WHO 2000) while spending only 8.4% of its gross domestic product (Kaiser EDU). In a recent poll, 79% of UK citizens “agreed that the NHS provided them with good service” (Health Science Journal, 2009).

In the United Kingdom, the National Health Service (NHS), a publicly funded healthcare system for England, provides the majority of healthcare, including primary care, in-patient care, long-term healthcare, ophthalmology, and dentistry. The issues associated with access to healthcare include availability, quality, costs and information about the services available. According to healthknowledge.org, “the availability of good medical care tends to vary inversely with the need for it in the population served… The quality of services offered to patients may vary between population groups, the health care services may impose costs (financial or otherwise) which vary between population groups and the health care organizations may fail to ensure that all population groups are equally aware of the services available” (Steinbach, 2009).

In line with the majority of other developed countries, the United Kingdom (UK) has offered its citizens a universal health care system that is free at the point of service. Funded primarily by taxation, the system is popular and efficient. However, along with most other health care systems around the world, it faces a series of challenges if it is to maintain viability, in the twenty-first century. These issues include; long waiting times, an aging population, funding challenges and the increasing cost of technology.

Globalization is a comprehensive and multi-faceted process, affecting economic, cultural, ecological and social aspects of life (Davis & Tschudin, 2008). The international migration of people lies at the core of this on going process, and as a result the UK’s population is growing at its fastest rate, whilst becoming increasingly diverse and mobile (Dunnell, 2007). The super-diverse population is also not stable and continues to change as a response to capital and global conflict (Phillimore, 2011). Consequently, cultural competence has emerged in order to understand health practices that are unfamiliar; ignoring diversity and providing incongruent nursing care can affect patient outcomes and jeopardize safety, thus Jeffrey’s (2008) suggests