The NHS is widely seen as having received a generous settlement in the recent spending review, compared to the settlements…
Big privateers, like Virgin and Operose, may have abandoned their interests in NHS contracts – facing shifts in government policy…
Contributors: Sylvia Davidson / Paul Evans Key points The public health grant has been cut by 26% on a real-terms per person basis since 2015/16. Public health services provide preventative services, including smoking cessation, drug and alcohol services, children’s health services, including health visitors and vaccination programmes, and sexual health services Research suggests that investing
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1. Healthcare costs are rising with need The key idea of the NHS is to share healthcare costs fairly across…
Contributors: John Lister, Paul Evans The most common view is that there are four basic ‘models’ of health care in the developed countries, although in reality many countries have a mix of models. 1. The private insurance model This approach has the least state involvement in direct funding or provision of health services. To get
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Contributors: John Lister, Paul Evans 5 Key Points Moving to social insurance would not necessarily lower the risk of underfunding as a steady stream of contributions is needed from the insured population, and if not high enough the quality and availability of care can be affected. Increasingly, countries with social insurance schemes are finding that
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Contributors: Sylvia Davidson, Paul Evans Key points Ony 3% of staff in NHS hospitals are employed in management roles a lot of staff hold management responsibilities whilst also working on the front-line in patient care employing full time managers will enable clinicians to focus on patient care. Top NHS executives paid far less than industry
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The social care system in England does not meet the needs of the current population, and going forward it will…
Universality It began with one straightforward aim - to give everyone in our society access to high quality healthcare, no matter where you live and regardless of your ability to pay. For many people the NHS removed the uncertainty around being able to access healthcare during sickness. The start of the NHS in 1948 coincided
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Contributor: Martin Shelley Seven years ago a widely respected public health expert wrote a blog addressing what he described as “the thorny issue of perverse incentives” that were undermining prevention and early intervention strategies within the NHS. Promoting the case for the adoption of a system-wide approach, Brian Ferguson noted, “It would be difficult to
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