History of Health and Social Care Services in the UK

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History of HSC in UK
England which is a most popular state of UK has made various
provisions in the field of health and social care practices. The country
has developed a number of projects and procedures to aid in the field
of HSC.
Barnet is a sub urban London borough in North London. The Diabetes
is a fastest growing disease in Barnet in which about 26,376 people
are currently suffering from this illness.
The total population of Barnet is 379,700 among which 187,685 are
females and 179,580 are males (Francis and et.al., 2012). It is apparent
that diabetes is a serious illness if not cared in proper manner which
can even cause paralysis to a patient.
Besides this, in some severe cases the illness can ultimately result
into death of a patient as well. It is also apparent that the disease can
be cured and a person can live a healthy life if managed properly.
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In London and most of the countries, people do not become aware of
their illness on time. Further, it is also evident that patients of diabetes
are not receiving a proper support and care to fight with the disease.
There are less number of care services who can aid in managing
their health and fighting with their withering condition. In Barnet, this
issue has increased as a result of unhealthy lifestyle and obesity. If the
severity of disease increases, it may lead to kidney and foot ulcers as
well.
The patient may have to take injections of insulin every day (Francis
and et.al., 2012). Thus the present condition where there is lack of
awareness among people about the seriousness of disease, it is
necessary to take action by health care providers of England like NHS,
to support them and prevent disease of Diabetes type 2.
(Source: Diabetes, 2017)
• Provisions
• REFERENCES
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Journals and Books
Entwistle, V. A. and Quick, O., 2016. Trust in the context of patient
safety problems. Journal of Health Organization and Management. 20(5).
pp.397–416.
Francis, J. and et.al., 2012. Creating sense of community: The role of public
space. Journal of Environmental Psychology. 32(4). pp.401-409.
Fetters, M.D., Curry, L.A. and Creswell, J.W., 2013. Achieving
integration in mixed methods designs—principles and practices. Health
services research. 48(6pt2), pp.2134-2156.
Light, D.W., 2010. Health-care professions, markets and countervailing
powers. Handbook of medical sociology, pp.270-289.
Online
Diabetes. 2017. [Online]. Available through: <
http://www.enfield.gov.uk/healthandwellbeing/diabetes>. [Accessed
on 21st January 2017].
• Issue
 The health care providers must make a provision to give a
care planning according to which some target should be
fixed for patients to maintaining blood glucose and blood
pressure in balanced level. Besides this, they should be
advised to keep track of this and visit doctor once in two
months to check the level of glucose in blood.
 The diabetic patients should be given a proper diet chart
with all the ea tables that should be eaten by them along
with things which should be avoided by them. This will
also help in maintaining their proper weight (Fetters, Curry
and Creswell, 2013).
 Clinical commissioning groups (CCG) which is set up by
NHS for making plans for health and social care practices
should make an awareness plan so that people can be
advised to take care about their health issues. Besides
this, they should give proper treatment plan to patients of
Type 1 diabetes as this one is more severe and patients
possess more risk.
 NHS should take an initiative with the assistance' of local
bodies to spread education among people over the next
five years so that proper prevention to this disease can be
made. Moreover, people with this disease should be given
structure education along with a proper guidance to
maintain healthy lifestyle (Light, 2010).
• Introduction
The health and social care (HSC) refers to all the services that are
provided by different health care providers. This may include all the
necessary services including the provisions for essential
infrastructures. Everyone needs a quality care which is vital for
families, societies and economy. Besides this, it is necessary that
this quality care should be made available to all those who need it
regardless of who can pay for it (Entwistle and Quick, 2016). Various
efforts have been made to promote health and care services at a
wider level due to which the outsourcing of different professionals
from private and public sectors have become common. In context of
UK, the NHS is the primary health care provider who delivers best of
its services to the population.
 In earlier 19th centuries, the major role in health and social care services was played
by non-profit voluntary organizations. They mainly provided their services to poor
and older people as per the Poor law of government. The funds for such
organisations indulged in giving services under Poor law were given by government
authorities.
 This policy continues till the period of world war and some changes were made post
war. After 1948, services were provided under local authorities under which some of
the services were free of cost (Fisher, 2015). Here, the health and social care
providers delivered their services either through their institutions or directly under
the local authorities which for which some times they use to charge some fees as
well (Francis and et.al., 2012).
 In mid 60s to 80s time period, a number of care homes were set up but their
conditions were not with much improvement. In 1962, local authorities took an
initiative and made 10 year plan for making improvements in the health care
services. The mission of these plans were mainly for facilitating such services that
can give quality care so that most of the old age and disabled people can take all the
services at their homes (Fetters, Curry and Creswell, 2013).
 From 1980s the clients shifted their preferences from community care services to
public and private sectors as well. The government also showed their preference
towards the private services. But this shift made an increase in the costs of services
delivered by the private care institutions. Till now the blend of such services are
continuing to giving their services in society with the help of community care,
private and public sectors etc.