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Essay-NHS should be privatized

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Introduction
For quite some time, a lot of discussion has been going around the topic “NHS
should be privatised”, a lot of experts, doctors and industry people have been
giving their opinion for and against the topic. My stand on the topic though is for
the part privatisation of NHS. History of NHS can be traced way back from the
year 1948, when for the first time in the history of UK, hospital, doctors, nurses,
dentist and opticians came together under one roof to provide free healthcare
services to the people in need. The underlying principle behind NHS is that all its
services and medical care are financed through a general taxation. Almost all of
the services provided under this humongous healthcare program are free,
leaving besides eye tests, dental care, prescriptions and aspects of long term
care (Haldenby, 2016)
Economic Factors
Privatisation of NHS though has some serious implication on the economic
conditions of the nation as big as UK. The burden of the cost is Bourne entirely
by the nation which in turn is imposed on the tax payers, who have to shed out a
portion of their income towards the socially relevant healthcare service. NHS
requires a budget of around 120 Billion Euros per financial year and this budget
is expected to increase by .5% year on year to facilitate the efficiency in this
public healthcare organization (HSPM, 2017). The cost incurred by NHS is
attributed towards the infrastructure, medical equipment, medicines and day
care facilities. A major portion is apportioned towards the salaries of the high
qualified doctors and the staff, hence it can be said that if a part privatisation is
done a lot of financial burden will be reduced on the public and the government
(NHS, 2016). At the same time, privatisation of the department would also
ensure the procurement and service delivery is extremely effective. Clear cut
objectives can be laid down for the private players after the privatisation which
would result in effective and efficient delivery in a quick span of time. It is