Key Aspects of UK Health Care System

This article discusses the key aspects of the UK health care system, including the NHS, stakeholders, and the importance of professional expertise.

POSTER PRESENTATION

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY ..................................................................................................................................3
KEY ASPECTS OF UK HEALTH CARE SYSTEM ................................................................3
STAKEHOLDERS OF HEALTHCARE SYSTEM ...................................................................4
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES ...............................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Health care systems aims at improving health outcomes of individuals,
communities and families against health risks. Various health care systems such as
NHS, Public Health England (PHE), Health Education England (HEE) aims at
protecting and educating people against health and financial effects of ill health.
MAIN BODY
KEY ASPECTS OF UK HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
Health care systems ensures that all individuals can access the quality and
safe health care services. These systems also aims at creating awareness among
communities and to emphasis on quality improvement so that mortality rates can
be improved. National health service (NHS) is publicly funded health care system
which work for providing low cost health care services to people. It assures that all
UK citizens are able to access the health care services without any financial or
accessibility barriers. In order to promote the healthy life style and to create
awareness about policies of government and public health hazards, public health
England encourages and conduct research for prevention and treatment of diseases
and promotional events for health.
Professional expertise in health care is vital and integral element of these
systems. In the same direction Health education England provides and support
education and training programs for the public health workforce. Thus the primary
aspect of this health care system is to support the health improvements for patients
and communities by delivering excellent and accurate health care services.
Apart from the clinical services, social and personal care to old people,
support to children or adults having needs specific needs due to illness is also an
important aspect of health care system. The social care in England works in
direction of providing social as well as clinical support to vulnerable communities
in UK. These health care systems works in collaboration with each other so that

physical, mental, emotional and social well being of individuals in the community
can be assured.
STAKEHOLDERS OF HEALTHCARE SYSTEM
The key stakeholders in health care system includes health professionals,
insurance companies, patients and carers, government and pharmaceutical
organisations. The health professionals such as physicians and pharmaceutical
companies are responsible for providing clinical and medical services. The
organisations such as NHS and HEE sets standards and professional code of
conduct for the health professionals so that they can deliver safe and quality health
services. With increasing premiums and chronic diseases insurance companies are
also providing financial assistance to patients and thus they are also influenced by
legislative policies. The organisations such as public health England conduct
various surveys to analyse the health status of people and on the basis of these
results UK government forms health policies and regulations. The activities and
decisions of health care system also influences people because they are the prime
service users.
CONCLUSION
It can be concluded from the above that for leading to a quality life among
communities and families health care systems must be improved and promoted.

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Heart, T., Ben-Assuli, O. and Shabtai, I., 2017. A review of PHR, EMR and EHR
integration: A more personalized healthcare and public health policy. Health
Policy and Technology. 6(1). pp.20-25.
Milne, E., 2016. What is public health?. Journal of Public Health. 38(4). pp.633-
634.