Recent Health and Social Care Policy

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Discussion..................................................................................................................................2
Historical and ideological developments of UK health policy..............................................2
Recent Health and Social Care policy....................................................................................3
Older adults and health.......................................................................................................3
Pre 1948 – The beginnings of the NHS.............................................................................3
The period 1948 to 1979....................................................................................................3
Thatcher era........................................................................................................................4
New Labour 1997-2010.....................................................................................................4
Coalition government 2010-2015......................................................................................5
Conservative government 2015-present day......................................................................5
Disability and health issues................................................................................................5
Pre 1948 – The beginnings of the NHS.............................................................................5
The period 1948 to 1979....................................................................................................5
Thatcher era........................................................................................................................6
New Labour 1997-2010.....................................................................................................6
Coalition government 2010-2015......................................................................................7
Conservative government 2015-present day......................................................................7
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................8
References..................................................................................................................................9
Introduction
The National Health System in the UK has transformed in order to develop as the major
healthcare organization across the world. As per studies, the UK government in its 2010
White Paper called “Equity and excellence: Liberating the NHS” has declared a policy on

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ways in which it will produce a highly approachable, patient-centred NHS that will aim to
attain results that are amongst the preeminent across the world (Rist 2019). The UK
healthcare arrangement, National Health Service (NHS) has its presence in the upshot of the
World War II during the 1940s. It was initially offered to the Government during the 1942
Beveridge Report on Social Insurance and Allied Services (Harcourt et al. 2017). It was also
seen as a legacy of to the previous miner named Aneurin Bevan who established himself as a
office-bearer and subsequently as Minister of Health. As per studies, healthcare as well as
health policy in lieu of England is the accountability of the central government, while in
Scotland, Wales as well as Northern Ireland it is serves as the accountability of the individual
decentralized administrations (Harcourt et al. 2017). The following report will analyse two
health and social care strategies on elder adults as well as disability in a chronological
manner.
Discussion
Historical and ideological developments of UK health policy
By drawing relevance to the historical aspects and characteristics of the British “welfare
state,” these attributes were seen as a greater success for the “New Liberal” ideology. Such an
ideology emerged previously in the period than for the “pure Socialism” which Aneurin
Bevan claimed to promote. According to Harcourt (2017), the New Liberalism that had been
in existence gave created major impact on British social democracy. It further aimed for
adequate social reorganization to alleviate as well as harmonize capitalist society. In
consequence it might put forward the continuing continuities in welfare policy. The NHS by
delivering free, unrestricted and comprehensive as well as universal certainly understood key
fundamentals in existing Labour Party policy. However, in the view of Ferry and Scarparo
(2015), regardless of the obligation to decentralize, democratic regulation of some socialized
health provision, the NHS since its inception had shown high centralization.
Recent Health and Social Care policy
Older adults and health
Pre 1948 – The beginnings of the NHS
Since pre 1848 to the inception of NHS, durable care of aged patients, where the problem of
deinstitutionalisation appeared significantly was one of the major areas of health services