National Health Service (NHS) Portfolio

National Health Service
(NHS) Portfolio

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
RECOMMENDATION...................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

INTRODUCTION
National health service is national healthcare system which publicly funded for England.
This health service is largest and single payer healthcare system, primarily funded by
government funding. NHS will be overseen by department of health and social care. It also
provides all legal services and residents for people who are with health care needs. NHS gives
free medical care to every individual who is living in England (Mitchell and Gill, 2014). This
system plays major role to provide care and treatment to large number of people. This
assignment will focus on three different areas of NHS and different theoretical models. Various
roles of NHS management and function of HR in the supporting management. And also internal
and external factors which influence the given three areas.
MAIN BODY
National health services include in-patient care, dentistry, ophthalmology, long term
healthcare and primary care. Services given are administrated in separate group such as general
practitioner & dental services, local health authority services and hospital & specialist services.
General practitioners provide primary medical care to group of individuals who register with
these physicians. These dentists and doctors operates their practices and paid by government
based on individuals registered with them. Their services organized locally by executive council.
Specialist and hospital services are given by professionals on the government payment working
in other facilities and government owned hospitals which are under direction of the regional
authorities which are known as hospital boards (Krachler and Greer, 2015). NHS also include
local health authority services which provide child welfare and maternity, home nursing,
ambulance services, immunization, posthospital, different education and preventive services.
They can also regulate day nurses for the children as well as family planning clinics.
National health service is to provide social and health services to people on free of cost
but the major problem which is faced by this organization is increasing waiting time to get
treatment and care. In NHS there is shortage of of staff due to maternity leave and short-terms
illness. This problem is major as some people do not get treatment due to waiting period. This
issue effects to patient and organization in negative way.
Leadership and management: Concept of the clinical leadership and management in
NHS arose preponderating from describing role of healthcare workers taking up the managerial
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