Should the NHS continue to provide unlimited free health care?
The NHS was established in 1948; ever since Aneurin Bevan’s achievement, health care has been free at the point of delivery – instead of health insurance (like The United States), it is funded by the tax-payer. There is an extreme divide over social and economic values which dictate opinions over the NHS’s future. The skilled NHS will help you; the useless NHS won’t be able to afford to aid you. Will it be privatised? Will it remain free? Will our treasured service crumble altogether?
Firstly, the NHS has many strengths, one being skilled people. These employees are pioneers of the medicine world! Thanks to these brilliant people the NHS was rated the best The Common Wealth Fund . These people are talented, these people are versatile, and these people are genuinely …show more content…
Poor co-ordination between services, such as social care, hinder the efficiency of hospitals – they struggle with certain wards and the numbers of patients which are no longer needing treatment. In Addenbrookes has at least four wards with patients needing to be discharged or moved to a better facility. Although, social care, the ones who need to move them, have very slim working hours. Slowly, the hospitals are in debt of more and more beds. And increase in demand: a decrease in supply.
In Germany, they have a very good health system – one third of the healthcare is funded by the government, the second third by private money, and third by non-profit organisations. This system is highly commended for its catering for all walks of life. Should the NHS follow in their footsteps? Although, Germany has recently been welcoming thousands of refugees, and it is unknown how the country’s health system will cope with such an influx of people.
People are living longer, getting ill, needing treatment – a vicious and repetitive
The NHS was established in 1948; ever since Aneurin Bevan’s achievement, health care has been free at the point of delivery – instead of health insurance (like The United States), it is funded by the tax-payer. There is an extreme divide over social and economic values which dictate opinions over the NHS’s future. The skilled NHS will help you; the useless NHS won’t be able to afford to aid you. Will it be privatised? Will it remain free? Will our treasured service crumble altogether?
Firstly, the NHS has many strengths, one being skilled people. These employees are pioneers of the medicine world! Thanks to these brilliant people the NHS was rated the best The Common Wealth Fund . These people are talented, these people are versatile, and these people are genuinely …show more content…
Poor co-ordination between services, such as social care, hinder the efficiency of hospitals – they struggle with certain wards and the numbers of patients which are no longer needing treatment. In Addenbrookes has at least four wards with patients needing to be discharged or moved to a better facility. Although, social care, the ones who need to move them, have very slim working hours. Slowly, the hospitals are in debt of more and more beds. And increase in demand: a decrease in supply.
In Germany, they have a very good health system – one third of the healthcare is funded by the government, the second third by private money, and third by non-profit organisations. This system is highly commended for its catering for all walks of life. Should the NHS follow in their footsteps? Although, Germany has recently been welcoming thousands of refugees, and it is unknown how the country’s health system will cope with such an influx of people.
People are living longer, getting ill, needing treatment – a vicious and repetitive