The National Health Service of the United Kingdom commenced in 1948. This was on the heels of the dire need for good and efficient health care to be made available to all and sundry irrespective. The NHS over the years has grown to be generally regarded as the world’s biggest publicly funded health service institution. The main intent for the inauguration of the NHS which is to provide efficient health service to all UK residents is being upheld and treated with utmost priority. This has made it possible for all UK residents to receive free healthcare services. However, there are some charges for optical and dental services.
The NHS is primarily responsible for the development of health service in England, Northern Ireland, Wales …show more content…
From the human resource perspective, the major factor for the failure of the Modernizing Medicine Careers (MMC) is seen from the system’s perspective. This in HR explains an organization in line with is input, throughput and output. Activities of workers in an organized form make up the input. The throughput entails the conversion of the various energies within the organization. The output is the resultant effect. From the word go, the Modernizing Medicine Careers (MMC) was affected negatively by the input and throughput factors. The online recruitment portal was grossly hacked on and subsequently compromised the entire system. Armstrong (2001) explained that the negative loop made the recruitment portal of the Modernizing Medicine Careers (MMC) not to succeed in its …show more content…
Gill (2007) stressed the importance of planning recruitment methods before proper execution. The inherent costs targeted at recruitment are also reduced to the barest minimum when proper planning is carried out. A synopsis of the diverse needs of the hospitals under the NHS was not done. Also, specialized doctors were not taken into consideration.
Fromm my viewpoint as an HR person, I will recommend that effective planning should be the watchword for the Modernizing Medicine Careers (MMC) going forward.
The deployment of the right technology for recruitment would also be recommended for the MMC. Despite the fact that there was a test run on the online recruitment portal, the system still malfunctioned thereby leading to a failure on the recruitment process. This presupposes that the test run was inadequate vis-à-vis the kind of recruitment they were embarking on. I would further recommend that thorough investigations be carried out to ascertain what led to the crash of the system and subsequently proffer solutions that would guard against future reoccurrences. Furthermore, strong measures that would prevent hacking should be thought out to protect the veracity of the recruitment