The NHS and Community Care Act 1990 The NHS and Community Care Act 1990 states that wherever possible services should be provided in the community or in the home as a large amount of money was being spent on residential and care homes for the elderly. The Local authorities must carry out an assessment of needs and must arrange for the care or provision. Also the local authorities were encouraged to purchase care from a mixed economy, including statutory, private and voluntary sectors to encourage competition and increase choice. (Classroom notes, 2014) / (Patient, 2015) The NHS and Community Care Act 1990 promotes the right to be cared for in a way that meets their needs and takes account of choices because it provides care that is tailored to the needs of people through an assessment. A detailed care …show more content…
A certain services may not also be provided in their area. An example of this could be if a patient lives in Liverpool and have cancer since the best hospital for this is Christie’s hospital in Manchester it would mean that the patient wouldn’t be able to have the same treatments than if they were living in Manchester. At the Christie we accept NHS referrals, Private insurance referrals as well as referrals from Wales, Liverpool, London, Scotland, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Malta, Netherlands, Greece and Spain only to name a few of the places where our patients come from. This is for treatments in Renal Cancer. Therefore some people may not have access to these services (Christie,
* Endocrinal phase = this is where the presence of the food especially protein is found in the stomach which them stimulates the release of a special type of hormone from the mucous cells called gastrin into the blood.
Oral health in Australia is a concern. The impact of poor dental health can instigate ulcers, gingivitis, gum disease and damage one’s overall health. Tooth decay is extensive among Australian adults, and tooth aches are a considerable amount of hospital admission for children (Parliament of Australia, 2013). Two in three children aged 14 years have deteriorated permanent teeth, while three in ten adults receive no treatment at all. Adults living in rural Australia are 1.7 times more likely to have no teeth than those in major cities. 14 percent of children and 37 percent of adults avoid or delaying seeing a dentist due to costs (Australian Institude of Health and Welfare, 2012). The advantages of installing a dental program within
Harbors edge is a continuing care retirement community. The facility is divided into three sections. They have the independent living community, the assisted living community, and the nursing home. Essentially, the community’s layout is comparable to a residential hotel, but geared towards older people. Aside from the various hotel-like amenities available for residents, Harbors Edge also offer easy access to skilled health care. They have an in-house clinic with 4 available physicians, a nurse practitioner, several nurses, and a number of nurse assistants. They also have a physical therapy department which cater to those in need of rehabilitation. They even have Memory Support Suites that help clients afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease.
A nurse said to me recently that the main problem for the NHS is Holby City; oh I think she meant obesity.
In the NHS, since its formation one of the major debates has been the tension between a national and centralized NHS and a local and decentralized service (Peckham et al 2008). Current debates about the nature and
UK Health and Social Care System with the effect of policies and legislations in England Health care system
the care worker are clearly laid out in such documents, as well as in their contract of
(Essex County Council, 2015) Evidence shows that the issues that link to integrating health and social care systems are down to: different funding systems, not planning for the long-term, different eligibility criteria, the wrong incentives and commissioning. Therefore, to tackle these issues regarding the social care system the Health and Well Being Strategy and JSNA set out there ideas and views on the most important factors as brought up previous to this so that the next government can look at implementing the changes that are now being brought to there attention. And so the aim is that health and social care can be onto a sustainable footing for the decades ahead. (Essex Insight, 2011)
The NHS has developed as the world’s largest publicly funded health system since its launch in 1948 after legislation in 1946, 1947 and 1948. It is also one of the most efficient, egalitarian and comprehensive. The NHS was built from a principle that good healthcare must be available to all, regardless of wealth. With the exception of several charges, i.e. prescriptions, optical and dental services, for anyone who is a UK resident the NHS still remains free at use. From antenatal screening and routine treatments for long-term conditions, transplants, emergency treatment and end-of-life care, the NHS deals with over 1 million patients every 36 hours. Since the NHS was established in 1948 life expectancy has risen and infant mortality has fallen.
The NHS is facing an unprecedented challenge of finding ways to manage an ever increasing aging population. This should be a cause for celebration as it reflects the many successes and advances in health and social care since the inception of the NHS. Indeed in many ways these facts represent the NHS achieving what it set out to do when it was first envisaged.
Following the Health and Social Care Act (2012), CCG’s were established all over the UK to commission services to meet the needs of the community in its catchment area. The
Marketisation is a worldwide trend across the field of social welfare, such as education (Ntshoe, 2004; Lowrie and Hemsley-Brown, 2011), health care (Collyer and White, 2011), voluntary/charity organisations (Cunningham, et al., 2013; Mckay, et al., 2015), and elder care and childcare (Brennan, et al., 2012). As Drakeford (2007) proposed, the marketisation of welfare has various forms, including ownership transforming from the state to market agencies or individuals, purchasing services from private/independent providers instead of being directly provided by the state, and relocating responsibilities from the state to individuals. Under the trend of global marketisation, elder care is increasingly shaped by the market. This study defines the term of ‘marketisation of care for older people’ as applying ‘markets’, ‘market principles’ (Daly and Lewis, 2000) and ‘market mechanism’ (Brennan et al., 2012; Williams and Brennan, 2012) in the field of care for older people. The ‘marketisation of care’ is a considerably complicated and multi-faceted trend, which involves shifts of the balance of mixed economy of care and increasing faith for applying market principles in the public sector (Daly and Lewis, 2000).
Various organizations exist worldwide that produce different guidelines and policies. In the UK these guidelines are evidence-based guidance and recommendations (Lowson et el.,2015) .same principle is applied for policies. In this essay, we are comparing the UK health care system guidelines and policies with that in Iraq where some guidelines and policies exist, and we are going to describe how these differences are basically on two different extremes.
“Outline the public health issues in 1840s and explain why the measures proposed to solve these problems were not popular. Is there anything today which we can learn from this period in developing current public health policies”?
The Health care system consist of a huge organization and that has become an increasingly popular subject. There has been much debate on the best ways to implement changes that can provide more access to healthcare, better quality and reduce cost. According to Sultz and Young (2014) consuming over 17% of the nation’s gross domestic product, exceeding 2.7 trillion dollars in cost, and employing a workforce of over 16 million, it is understandable that health care occupies a central position in American popular and political discourse (p. 1). This large organization employees many individual and helps delivery healthcare services to even more people. The government along with other parties from the public and private sphere work to reform healthcare services and improve efficiency and quality in the healthcare delivery system. Many times the health care system of the United States is compared to that of other developed countries to implement certain ideas while reframing from others. In particular I will be discussing the comparison of U.S healthcare systems to that of the U.K and Sweden.