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CONTEMPRORARY WELFARE AND SOCIAL POLICY
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Critically examine the impact of the funding crisis on the NHS and Social Care services
Introduction
The social services is well known to bring range of public services, which is provided by
private, non-profit, and government companies. These services will finally aim to create
effective companies by creating strong communities, and promote equality. These services
include healthcare services, subsidised housing services, food subsidies, education, and
community management (Woolhandler, and Himmelstein 2017: 428). One availing social
service institution named as NHS, which was established in 1948 as a social reform to avail
healthcare services and treat patients free of cost (NHS England 2018). These services are
availed irrespective of sexual orientation, age, disability, race, religion, and belief. This essay
shows the importance of funding for social service and issues faced by them, where NHS has
strived to incur proficient healthcare services and delegate them to patients. NHS depends on
comprehensive support through local healthcare professionals who makes decisions regarding
the services towards patients and local communities (the UK’s independent fact checking
charity 2018). The regional teams of NHS strengthen the collaboration with the integrated
care systems, and sustainable transformational partnerships within the organisation. It is
already national health services, which is a practical expression of shared commitment across
generation and nations. This essay will analyse and critically discuss the funding issues on
NHS and social care service (Woolhandler, and Himmelstein 2017: 428). Although, NHS is
considered as one of the precious resource of society but it faces severe pressure from
economic, political, and social conditions. It is important to identify key ideas and concepts
for social policy, which brings principles such as social needs, social issues, social justice,
equity, equal rights, difference, and exclusion indicating and allocating rights to people
(Wilson, Tucci, Merson, and O'Donoghue 2017: 2511). NHS generates funds from general

taxation, local government, and other national insurance contributions (the health foundation
2019). NHS spends its most of its funds in hospitals, and 15 percent healthcare services,
which includes dentists, pharmacists, and opticians. NHS undertakes to spend 15 percent,
which does not consider spending by the individuals on social care (the UK’s independent
fact checking charity 2018).
Examination of funding crisis of NHS and other social services
With current changes in the political environment especially due to the influence of Brexit,
NHS faces funding crisis. With this impact, it is seen that there are other several factors,
which has changed the source of creating funds (Pappas 2019: 17). Recently, it is seen that
social care services have been facing current issues such as management issue, ageing
population, increase in obesity and diabetic patients, lack of personnel, funding issue,
performance, increasing cost of social care services, lack of medicine, and difficulty in
handling mental health. Lack of funding is one of the major cause of hurdles in serving
people (Fahy, Hervey, Greer, Jarman, Stuckler, Galsworthy, and McKee 2017: 2114). This
discussion will consider the examination of how efficiently and effectively NHS uses its
funds to bring towards the welfare of society by getting assistance from local government
grants and healthcare departments in last few years (the health foundation 2019). In 2018,
nearly Euro 110 billion was spent on NHS Budget, which included catering of services such
as public health initiatives, educational training and hospitals but at the same time it is seen
that these services had induced NHS to spend Euro 125 billion (NHS England 2018).
Furthermore, NHS reports have presented that only a small amount is generated through the
patient charges, which essentially includes dental care and prescriptions. Then in 2016 and
2017, Euro 1.6 billion was collected as the sum of prescription, patient charges, and dental
care fees. According to the assumption, UK would receive funding in real terms over Euro 20
billion by the end of 2023-24, which reflects 3.4 percent inflation. In 2018-2019, it is seen

that Theresa said that taxpayers are instructed to contribute fair and balanced way to finance
NHS and implication coming from taxation. Although, there are several reasons of decreasing
funds but Brexit is prime amongst all of them (Cookson, Mirelman, Griffin, Asaria, Dawkins,
Norheim, Verguet, and Culyer 2017: 210). NHS does not individually face lack of funds but
it is most common issue faced by other NGOs (Simpkin, and Mossialos 2017: 470).
Undoubtedly, NHS faces hurdles in attaining and garner sufficient funds for its work. This
will lead to severe consequences in long term especially patient`s care. For instance-
prolonged decrease in value of sterling, which will finally increase inflation and reflect higher
price for drugs and other medicines for NHS purchases (NHS England 2018). Alteration of
plan in HM treasury in which the taxes might rise and cutting of public spending so that
government can increase their revenue (Mugisha et al. 2017: 7). If these budgets are
improved then cutting in social care funding can have knock on impact on NHS because there
will be an intensifying gap in social care funds. Spending review shows that NHS needed
additional funding above especially in 2018-2019, which is obviously needed for catering the
patients. Below is the health budget estimation laid down by the department of health budget-
Table 1. The uk’s independent fact checking charity (2018)
With the upsurging ageing population, inflation, and need for medical needs, it is seen that
spending per person will definitely increase where UK`s political and economic instability is
another concern, which will increase the spending per person. NHS have been facing
additional burden because of increasing ageing population (Doetsch, Pilot, Santana, and