Healthcare Services And Continuous Treatment

The overall process of discharging a patient from a hospital and the transition back home or to a care facility are critical advancements in the overall course of both acute and long-term care. It is important that the hospitals releasing these patients have ensured the proper overall course of care from beginning to end. The lack of consistency with both the discharge process and the quality of discharge planning has led to many avoidable readmissions. To reduce the amount of hospital readmissions, it is imperative that hospitals recognize the need for focused patient care and that programs are being implemented to assist in the care transition.

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.

The (NHS) the National Health Service in uk was launched in 1948. (History of the NHS time line 2014). The idea was that good health care should be available to all regardless of wealth.

this type of care provision is required by law and is governed by the legislation. Local and health authorities like the NHS are all subject to the laws of the land in delivering services and meeting targets that are set, the targets are set so that the people in the country follow them. The care provision is to last until the patient has entered the hospital and is healthy enough so that they don’t need help anymore. The positive side of this is that

There is a documentary from 2006 on PBS called Living Old from Frontline that interviews many elderly patients and their care-takers about living longer and the effect it has on them. It was very interesting to watch because it showed both sides of many problems facing the older adult and their families along with the potential decisions that will need to be made by them as people are living so much longer now. The purpose of this discussion is to address something I learned that I did not previously know, review what I found the most surprising, and what piece of information that will most likely affect my nursing practice after viewing this documentary.

One factor to longer life expectancy and better health throughout the UK however there may be a divide, is that the government introduced the NHS in 1984.

The immunisation of diphtheria in the 1930 were a failure because of the dislocation between central and local Government (Williams 2013). Vaccination were local Government responsibly and not the central Government, the local government were not receiving money from the central government for the immunisation program (Williams 2013). During the World War 2 the Central Government recognised that vaccination were important in case of academic outbreak (Williams 2013). Also In the Second World War, in 1939 an emergency medical service was created to help the casualty of the war (Rivett 2015). This lead toward the Government commissioned a report into way that Britain should be rebuilt after the World War Two (BBC 2014). William Beveridge was not happy that he was appointed chair of the 1941 committee to improve Britain's system of social insurance (Byrne 2012). Beveridge wanted to be in charge of the front line to help defeat the Nazis (Byrne 2012). Beveridge after realised the potential of the task and knew he could shape a social transformation (Byrne 2012). A year later in 1942 William Beveridge published a report called ‘Social insurance and allied services’ (BBC 2014). The Report suggested that the government should find ways of fighting the five 'Giant Evils' of 'Want, Disease, Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness' (BBC 2014). The first of Beveridge’s proposal came into effect in 1945, when

The Health and Social Care Act 2012 came into force with crucial principles including new structures and arrangements in health care services to safeguard and strengthen the future of NHS and maintain the modernisation plan. In this Act, many new changes has been made to a number of existing Acts, National Health Services Act (NHS 2006), in order to enable health care system to tackle the existing challenges and also avoid any potential crisis in future. It has also introduced the proper allocation of NHS fund and budget, and improved the integrated care between NHS and social care services to promote patients’ choice in terms of delivering quality care.

In 2013 an average of one out of eight Medicare patients are readmitted within a 30-day period which lead to the estimated costs of around $18 billion a year for Medicare patients alone. Hospitals will either be penalized or receive bonuses for their performance with readmissions. This program will encourage hospitals to concentrate on ways to improve coordinating transitions of care while improving the safety and quality of care provided. In order to

Starla, I agree with your statement that the older adult is a part of the vulnerable population. I also agree that more resources need to be available to them with education and that this could aid in the reduction of hospital readmissions. One of the articles I summarized, Risk Assessment and Intervention for Older Adults (Culo, 2011), also said the older person may have ‘red flags’ such as repeat emergency room visits or admissions, putting off medical problems, and not taking prescriptions as directed. Frequent assessments for risks and home visits could curb their health care costs. There should also be more involvement from family if available.

Long Term Conditions (LTC) are illnesses for which there is no cure, yet can be managed with the correct medications and treatments. Common LTCs include high blood pressure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and arthritis (The King’s Fund 2015). The following essay will discuss LTCs and their prevalence in today's society, by first looking at statistics and the government policies that were developed as a result of said research. Secondly, this essay will examine different methods of developing a care plan for an individual following a biopsychosocial model. Lastly, a Long Term Condition will be examined that was experienced when interacting with a patient from a previous community placement; this individual was living with Chronic Heart Failure and this essay will critically evaluate CHF, including the ailments, causes and the various

The National Health Service (NHS) was started in 1948 by Aneurin Bevan, the minister of health at the time. It was based on three core principles that still underpin the NHS today. It was set up to ensure that everyone could have access to healthcare, despite their financial circumstances (NHS 2013a). Although the NHS has achieved what it set out to do, it is now in major financial difficulty, with debt that could reach £1bn by the end of 2014 (Campbell 2014).

It is important to understand that patients have been experiencing aging bias for a very long time. It is also evident in the medical profession as well, and one needs to do more to ensure that everyone is treated fairly especially the elderly patients. The elderly patients need to treat with the utmost respect and dignity. One needs to understand that the elderly are the ones who pave the way for the younger generation. Therefore, it is important that one takes the time out of their busy assignments to listen to what the older patients have to say and respond to them in an appropriate manner. This paper will discuss how aging has impact one nursing practice, aging bias that one has witnessed during their nursing practice, and a community plan to discuss aging bias.

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,

- Due to the growing recognition that treating patients requiring subacute care in low overhead nursing facilities was a cost effective alternative