An Introduction to Healthcare Policy

An Introduction to Healthcare Policy.

Table of Content.
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................2
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................2
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................2
Healthcare policy reforms introduced by the Labour Government (1997- 2010).......................2
Conservative/ Liberal Coalition health agenda (2010-2015).......................................................3
Discuss recent proposals in healthcare policy and its potential impact on service users............4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
Discuss the ideological backgrounds that can influence healthcare policy development...........5
Describe how stakeholders can influence policy development...................................................5
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................5
Discuss a policy developed during the coalition government and its impact upon service users.
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Explain the government’s policy on supporting service users with long-term conditions and its
implications for service users......................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
In a health and social care environment, it generally concentrates over a healthcare team
as well as on delivery systems which can efficiently deliver care services to patients. While
working in a care organization, there were many issues arises such as some ethical issues, legal
issues or some policy related issues. These all can indirectly make impact over patients care and
ultimately lead to create problems in their health and sometimes death also. So, in health and
social care organization, having effective policies and legislations are quite important as it can
help care managers or professionals to effectively deliver care treatment to patient and improve
their well-being and quality life as well. In this report, it will cover changes done towards
healthcare (NHS) policy generally introduced by Labour government (1997-2010). It will cover
the discussion about proposals based on policies in healthcare along with its influence that affect
the service users. The report will also cover various stakeholders that can make impact over
policy development so that it can benefit the service users or patients (Khan et. al., 2020).
MAIN BODY
TASK 1
Healthcare policy reforms introduced by the Labour Government (1997- 2010).
In UK, the Labour Government (1997-2010) generally introduced a series of alterations
towards the National Health Services in England in the year 2002. It is generally structured to
enhance the choice of patients of place of an elective care organization as well as can support the
competition within private and public care providers of elective well-being care services for
National Health Services funded patients. In this, there are two levels of goals which are
specifically determined from Labour Government such as saving the National Health Services
via program of well-being care investments, reforms and modernisation and enhancing the
overall health results of population across United Kingdom and can effectively decrease the
well-being disparities among them (Labour’s Record on Health (1997-2010), 2013). In this, the
labour government's first term during 1997 to 2001 can generally involve state of National
Health Services was mainly a fault line of the year 1997's campaign of General Elections with
Blair efficiently declaring on eve of elections which the voter had generally 24 hours to save the
healthcare organization. Still, the very immediate plans for vast money injections into National
Health Services were generally delayed until after 2000, with prior commitments to uphold the