Critical review
This essay is a Critical review on the availability of mental health service within The National Health Service (NHS) and the policy’s around this area. This piece will look at what is social policy? The Salisbury Centres document the future of mental health and the current Conservative governments manifesto.
Social policy is the term given the way in which welfare system are developed within society and the policies that are put in to place by the government that offer welfare and social protect (TMiller, 2016). This essay will look at The NHS this comes under “The Welfare State”. The Welfare State was a proposal by William Beveridge who published a report in 1942 showing the inequalities within Britain. In this report, …show more content…
should GP and mental health services be moving in the same direction? Has the UK become a place in which people cannot access services for mental health and physical health because healthcare services opening times are out of date and do not suit working peoples. The current Conservative manifesto states that it intends to make GP services 7 days a week 8am to 8pm by 2020 could this shorten the waiting time of the for therapies as some can be performed in GP surgeries or will this increase the amount of people who are requesting them (The conservative party manifesto 2015, 2015). Jeremy Hunt says “Our shared vision of a 7-day mental health service means people will get the care they need, when they need it, and will help prevent mental illness in the first place.” (Department of Health, 2016). But with the current strikes from junior doctors about working hours although there is a clear need for GP to be more accessible are the government asking for too much and can they come to some sort of compromise like Aneurin Bevan did in 1948 so they can achieve their goals. A group of junior doctors at Bedford hospital said “on Monday ( the 4th of April 2016) that they were the most senior person on a ward because the consultant was in asleep as he had only had an hour sleep that night” they also went on to say “ they are not opposed to a 7 day a week service but they would need 40 % more staff at that hospital” this shows that the government cuts and funding for the NHS as they currently stand would not accommodate this. Another employee of Bedford hospital went on to say “Bedford hospital current runs at 10-million-pound deficit a year” so with a small 360 bed trust running at a 1-million-pound deficit how does the government expect to proceed with its plans (NHS Staff Bedford Hospital, 2016). Will a 7-day service help prevent mental health illness or
This essay is a Critical review on the availability of mental health service within The National Health Service (NHS) and the policy’s around this area. This piece will look at what is social policy? The Salisbury Centres document the future of mental health and the current Conservative governments manifesto.
Social policy is the term given the way in which welfare system are developed within society and the policies that are put in to place by the government that offer welfare and social protect (TMiller, 2016). This essay will look at The NHS this comes under “The Welfare State”. The Welfare State was a proposal by William Beveridge who published a report in 1942 showing the inequalities within Britain. In this report, …show more content…
should GP and mental health services be moving in the same direction? Has the UK become a place in which people cannot access services for mental health and physical health because healthcare services opening times are out of date and do not suit working peoples. The current Conservative manifesto states that it intends to make GP services 7 days a week 8am to 8pm by 2020 could this shorten the waiting time of the for therapies as some can be performed in GP surgeries or will this increase the amount of people who are requesting them (The conservative party manifesto 2015, 2015). Jeremy Hunt says “Our shared vision of a 7-day mental health service means people will get the care they need, when they need it, and will help prevent mental illness in the first place.” (Department of Health, 2016). But with the current strikes from junior doctors about working hours although there is a clear need for GP to be more accessible are the government asking for too much and can they come to some sort of compromise like Aneurin Bevan did in 1948 so they can achieve their goals. A group of junior doctors at Bedford hospital said “on Monday ( the 4th of April 2016) that they were the most senior person on a ward because the consultant was in asleep as he had only had an hour sleep that night” they also went on to say “ they are not opposed to a 7 day a week service but they would need 40 % more staff at that hospital” this shows that the government cuts and funding for the NHS as they currently stand would not accommodate this. Another employee of Bedford hospital went on to say “Bedford hospital current runs at 10-million-pound deficit a year” so with a small 360 bed trust running at a 1-million-pound deficit how does the government expect to proceed with its plans (NHS Staff Bedford Hospital, 2016). Will a 7-day service help prevent mental health illness or