Overview of Healthcare in The UK
Received 2010 Sep 1; Accepted 2010 Sep 27; Issue date 2010 Dec.
. The National Health System in the UK has developed to end up being one of the biggest healthcare systems on the planet. At the time of writing of this evaluation (August 2010) the UK federal government in its 2010 White Paper "Equity and excellence: Liberating the NHS" has actually announced a strategy on how it will "produce a more responsive, patient-centred NHS which achieves outcomes that are among the very best worldwide". This review post provides an overview of the UK healthcare system as it currently stands, with emphasis on Predictive, Preventive and Personalised Medicine aspects. It intends to work as the basis for future EPMA posts to broaden on and provide the changes that will be implemented within the NHS in the upcoming months.
Keywords: UK, Healthcare system, National health system, NHS
Introduction
The UK health care system, National Health Service (NHS), came into existence in the after-effects of the Second World War and became operational on the 5th July 1948. It was first proposed to the Parliament in the 1942 Beveridge Report on Social Insurance and Allied Services and it is the legacy of Aneurin Bevan, a previous miner who ended up being a political leader and the then Minister of Health. He established the NHS under the principles of universality, totally free at the point of delivery, equity, and paid for by main financing [1] Despite many political and organisational changes the NHS stays to date a service offered widely that looks after people on the basis of requirement and not capability to pay, and which is funded by taxes and national insurance coverage contributions.
Health care and health policy for England is the obligation of the central federal government, whereas in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland it is the responsibility of the particular devolved governments.
Received 2010 Sep 1; Accepted 2010 Sep 27; Issue date 2010 Dec.
. The National Health System in the UK has developed to end up being one of the biggest healthcare systems on the planet. At the time of writing of this evaluation (August 2010) the UK federal government in its 2010 White Paper "Equity and excellence: Liberating the NHS" has actually announced a strategy on how it will "produce a more responsive, patient-centred NHS which achieves outcomes that are among the very best worldwide". This review post provides an overview of the UK healthcare system as it currently stands, with emphasis on Predictive, Preventive and Personalised Medicine aspects. It intends to work as the basis for future EPMA posts to broaden on and provide the changes that will be implemented within the NHS in the upcoming months.
Keywords: UK, Healthcare system, National health system, NHS
Introduction
The UK health care system, National Health Service (NHS), came into existence in the after-effects of the Second World War and became operational on the 5th July 1948. It was first proposed to the Parliament in the 1942 Beveridge Report on Social Insurance and Allied Services and it is the legacy of Aneurin Bevan, a previous miner who ended up being a political leader and the then Minister of Health. He established the NHS under the principles of universality, totally free at the point of delivery, equity, and paid for by main financing [1] Despite many political and organisational changes the NHS stays to date a service offered widely that looks after people on the basis of requirement and not capability to pay, and which is funded by taxes and national insurance coverage contributions.
Health care and health policy for England is the obligation of the central federal government, whereas in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland it is the responsibility of the particular devolved governments.