Comparative Healthcare Systems: Roles and Responsibilities of Patients as Stakeholders

Comparative Healthcare Systems

Table of Content
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Findings .......................................................................................................................................1
Roles and responsibilities of Patients as stakeholder .......................................................1
Criteria used for the comparative analysis: the six building blocks..................................3
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................8
RECOMMENDATIONS ................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Healthcare system can be defined as the formal structure of people, policies and actions
which primary work for promoting, restoring and maintaining the health of people who are
requiring an intensive care. A healthcare organisation consist of patients, doctors, nurses,
pharmacists, employees and employers which are collectively referred as stakeholder of
healthcare system. Stakeholders can be defined as the individual, group, system or organisation
that collectively work for a same interest and can affects or get affected by the outcome of the
project (Chambers and Storm, 2019). As per World Health Organisation, examples of
stakeholders are physician, nurses, ambulance services, pharmacists, social workers, hospital
discharge planners, alternative medicinal practitioners, physical therapist and nursing
professionals. The report is based on a comparative research methodology of stakeholders in
between the two countries that is United Kingdom and United States of America using Patients
as the Stakeholders. Comparative research methodology is the science that aims for making
comparisons in between various countries and cultures. It has advantages like, in discovery of
cause and effect relationships between two or more exclusive events, it ignore artificiality and
have no ethical issues. Disadvantages of comparative methodology includes, no control over
variables and typical experiments. Further the report is based on the comparison of roles and
responsibilities of patients within the healthcare of both counties, and their contribution in
improving health outcomes. The report will further use six building blocks for the comparative
analysis of both the countries.
MAIN BODY
Findings
Roles and responsibilities of Patients as stakeholder
In United kingdom, national health service (NHS) has its own unique structure as well as
the organisation for each country. NHS is the public funded healthcare system of UK, divided
into three cares that are: primary care, secondary care and tertiary care. Whereas the healthcare
system of US is not like the countries and around 64% of the health care funds are provided by
the government and rest through funding from various programmes. As NHS provides free
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health care services to an extent to the patients so the health care system of UK is more patient
dependent. The patients might have their say in the regulation formulation in the health care
system of UK as it is regulated by Care quality commission but the patients will not have any
role in regulation formulation because in US the health care system work on the rules formed by
the government. The health care system of UK offers higher commissioning to the patients than
the US. The NHS aims at elevating the level of quality of care and to decrease the health related
inequalities so to accomplish these goals it provides the patients with increased choices and
autonomy regarding the health care services that the patient is going to receive. The service
delivery of the health care system of UK is more patient centred in nature as UK aims at
emphasising more at the provision of quality care to the patients whereas the care practices at the
health care institutions of the US are less patient centred (Dimitropoulos and et.al. 2019).
The patient’s involvement in the framing of health care policies is very important in order to
ensure formation of more efficient policies that can result in better patient centred care provision.
This will result in elevation of the health status of the entire nation. Both US and UK involve and
give importance to the feedbacks related to health care provision offered at various health care
centres of the country. Thus the point of view of patients about the health care services are
valued in both US and UK health care systems. The ownership of patient in the care provided to
him is linked with the role of the patient in making decisions for his own care. In UK the patients
are provided more involvement in the decisions regarding the treatment regime than US
therefore the patients of UK practice more patient care ownership than patients of US (Zibrowski
and et. al., 2021). The table below consist of role and responsibilities of a patient in the following
mentioned fields while presenting a contrast between UK and USA.
Roles and Responsibilities UK USA
Funding Public Funded Mixture of Public and Private
funding
Regulations Regulated by Care Quality
Commission
Regulated by Government
Commissioning Patient commissioning is Patient commissioning is less
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