Comparative Healthcare Systems

Comparative
Healthcare Systems

Table of Contents
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.............................................................................................................3
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................4
The EIGHT FACTOR model for providing TRUE ACCESS....................................................4
Major health issues of healthcare system in UK.........................................................................7
Importance of health care system including effective model....................................................10
Critical analysis of health care system of UK...........................................................................12
Comparative analysis of UK health system with other country................................................14
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................17
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................19

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Healthcare systems can be described as a complex approach including various aspects
such as patient care, insurance, health care professionals, legal issues and types of hospital
systems. It includes several aspects which consist kinds of patient care, systems of various care
organisations and public health programs. However, it involves the various innovative resources
and equipments including advanced technology. The health care system of United Kingdom of
Great Britain is discussed here with explanation of various major issues that are required to
solved. It is necessary to focus on problems occurring in current health care system in order to
overcome with them. Meanwhile, the different recommendations including utilisation of national
standards of care and innovative technology for increasing efficiency of health system of given
country.

INTRODUCTION
Health care system refers to an effective method through which healthcare of a nation is
financed, organised and delivered to the citizens. It consist various aspects of health care stem
which are required to be improved for enhancing effectiveness of clinical practices which
facilitate to gain better patient outcomes. However, it is necessary to focus on facilities and
techniques used in health care system in terms of determining relevant problems to remove them
accordingly. It consist the requirements of considering human rights and different effective laws
by care professionals which is favourable to avoid clinical mistakes or errors (Alloubani,
Abdelhafiz and Saleh, 2016). Meanwhile, healthcare system also involves various factors such as
access to medical facilities, expenditures and resources which are important for improving its
effectiveness. It is necessary to identify relevant components which are required to be eliminated
which helps to deliver appropriate care services for welfare of citizens. Moreover, innovations
and different technologies should be use in health system for improving its efficiency but
elimination of threats also impacts positively. It involves the efforts of medical practitioners and
government to increase the effectiveness of health system of country which impact positively in
various aspects including growth, productivity, income etc.
In context of this report, it is based on the healthcare system of UK which is a sovereign
country located off the north-western coast of the European mainland. It is consider as United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland which is commonly known as Britain or United
Kingdom (UK). This assignment will focus on eight factor model to define true access to health
systems and relevant major issue in selected nation. It will also includes the critical analysis of
specific healthcare system along with comparative evaluation. The effective recommendations to
solve various threats and issue of particular health care system in terms of delivering better care
services to population are given below.
MAIN BODY
The EIGHT FACTOR model for providing TRUE ACCESS
The eight factor model is used to find out the true access of health care system which is
providing to everyone (Soril and et. al., 2016). The true access means by being capable and have
the ability to getting your needs by paying for the services according to the needs when the
patient once enter in the health system. So this true access develop a framework in UK to assess