The NHS has been through many transformations since its inception in 1948. Highlight some of the key issues the NHS is facing today (this includes the “Save our NHS” campaign). National Health Service (NHS) was founded in July 1948. The NHS aimed to provide excellent healthcare to the people in United Kingdom unmindful about being rich or poor. The government planned to finance the NHS only from taxation by the individual contribution to taxes through their working income. As more people coming in to live in the UK, with immigration population going up to 27 percent according to “Barrett David. Home affairs correspondent (2015) the telegraph 27 August” and demand of British society growing; therefore it is difficult for the
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According to House of Commons library (2015) in September national insurance contribution made was £109 billion and these incomes are used by the government to finance the NHS. The difference between the income and spending, will be borrowing from banks in order to pay expenses. Financial difficulties are one of the issues in NHS today; funding cost disaster is the biggest problem in NHS. Reference to current challenges in NHS recorded that, “if we make no changes we face 30 Billion funding gap in the year 2020”. It is true because of the society or individual living in long-term diseases, which cost the NHS money to finance for specialist care, and the need to employ carers in long-term conditions as …show more content…
Reference to BBC News (2015) reported that Doctors have been given permission to precede 10 womb transplants, which the first baby could be expected in 2018. It was reviewed that 7,000 women are lacking a womb and some get damage because of cancer. Another report from BBC News (2015) said that Ebola have been cured in West African with a result to scientific approach to technology and medicines. These procedures have gone beyond our imagination as compared to when NHS was founded in 1948 and we ever knew technology would be this
According to House of Commons library (2015) in September national insurance contribution made was £109 billion and these incomes are used by the government to finance the NHS. The difference between the income and spending, will be borrowing from banks in order to pay expenses. Financial difficulties are one of the issues in NHS today; funding cost disaster is the biggest problem in NHS. Reference to current challenges in NHS recorded that, “if we make no changes we face 30 Billion funding gap in the year 2020”. It is true because of the society or individual living in long-term diseases, which cost the NHS money to finance for specialist care, and the need to employ carers in long-term conditions as …show more content…
Reference to BBC News (2015) reported that Doctors have been given permission to precede 10 womb transplants, which the first baby could be expected in 2018. It was reviewed that 7,000 women are lacking a womb and some get damage because of cancer. Another report from BBC News (2015) said that Ebola have been cured in West African with a result to scientific approach to technology and medicines. These procedures have gone beyond our imagination as compared to when NHS was founded in 1948 and we ever knew technology would be this