An Introduction to Healthcare Policy

An introduction to
healthcare policy

Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
1.1: Summarise the main healthcare policy reforms introduced by the Labour Government
(1997- 2010)...........................................................................................................................3
1.2: Summarise the Conservative/ Liberal Coalition health agenda (2010-2015).................4
1.3: Discuss recent proposals in healthcare policy and its potential impact on service users4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
2.1 Discuss the ideological backgrounds that can influence healthcare policy development 5
2.2 Discuss how stakeholders can influence policy development..........................................5
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................6
3.1: Discuss a policy developed during the coalition government and its impact upon service
users........................................................................................................................................6
3.2: Explain the government’s policy on supporting service users with long-term conditions
and its implications for service users......................................................................................7
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7
References........................................................................................................................................8

Introduction
In present time, there are a range of policies that are developed by governmental agencies of
health care factor in order to improve health and safety features and standards for the individuals
belonging to a country or for the employees who are working among different organisations
(Jordan, 2017). It has been analysed to that, in United Kingdom main health care policy was
performed in the year of 1997 and which was developed or introduced by labour government.
Present report is going to be enclosed with main healthcare policy reforms read sent proposals in
healthcare policies, ideological background that can influence health care policies, liberal
coalition, and stakeholder’s impact over policy development and so on.
TASK 1
1.1: Summarise the main healthcare policy reforms introduced by the Labour Government
(1997- 2010)
In the year of 1997, the first health care policy was developed and it was basically introduced or
formulated by labour government of United Kingdom and since then there were many structural
changes that took place till 2010. The primary health care policy reform which was introduced
by labour government of United Kingdom where the number of structural changes took place
among different areas and positions within the healthcare sector. A few examples can be given in
present context for district health authorities were specifically changed and named it as PCTs.
another example of change that specifically to place in 1997 was regional health authorities were
replaced with SHAs. In the year of 2001 the National Treatment Agency was formulated for
substance misuse (NTA). Another formulation that took place in the year of 2006 where NHS
business services authority started combining with the different services which includes dental
practice board, NHS counter fraud and security Management services, NHS pensions agencies
and so on and this particular change was named as NHSBSA (MacLeod, 2017). Including this,
another change can be seen within healthcare policy which was introduced by labour government
where in the year of 2000 NHS plan was considered with 10th principles in order to run the
future health policies but in the year of 2005 it was changed with maximum weight for a
particular operation appointment will be from 1 to 3 months and maximum wait for the particular
inpatient treatment it will be e e kept for almost six months only. In present context, since the
whole world is dealing with endemic corona virus there were a range of alterations made within