Public Services in Contemporary Society - Assignment PDF
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Public Services inContemporary Society
ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1P1 Describing the development of public services......................................................................1P2 Outlining the development of a selected public service organisation....................................2M1 Analysing the ways in which contemporary practice sits within a tradition of historicalpractice.........................................................................................................................................4D1 Evaluating contemporary issues within the development of public services........................5TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5P3 Analysing the operational structure of a given public services organisation.........................5P4 Explaining how the public sector is held accountable for its actions and direction bothoperationally and strategically.....................................................................................................7M2 Assessing the structure of a public sector organisation with reference to responsibilities...8TASK 3............................................................................................................................................9P5 Explaining the types of sources of funding available to the public sector.............................9P6 Identifying how funding is allocated to different public sector organisations.....................10M3 Assessing the impact of funding from different sources and its allocation within the publicsector..........................................................................................................................................12D2 Analysing the allocation of funding within the public sector and the impact of funding,structure and strategy on the sector...........................................................................................12TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................13P7 Defining the strategy, structure and role of public sector organisations..............................13M4 Assessing the impact of proposed changes upon the society in which public sectororganisations serve.....................................................................................................................13CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14
INTRODUCTIONPublic service refers to the services provided by government to general population of anarea. These services are related with the basic human rights of an individual and must beprovided to every individual without any bias. The most important public services are consideredas fire rescue services and ambulance services (Bason, 2018). In terms of contemporary world,public services are not limited to just fire dept. and ambulance, there are ample of services whichare provided by a government to their civilians. These services include electricity, education,environmental protection, social services and many more. In this report, a particular publicservice is selected which is given by a public service organisation that is NHS, UK. NationalHealth Service which is often called as NHS is a public organisation which provides healthcareservices to the citizens of jurisdiction of United Kingdom. Services which are provided by NHSincludes hospital, NHS App, Urgent and emergency care. The main aim of this report is toanalyse the influence of digital technology on the development of public services. This report includes development of both public services and NHS along with operationalstructure of NHS. This report also involves the understanding that how NHS and public sector isheld accountable for its actions along with types of funding sources available to publicorganisations. At last, this report will define the strategy, role and structure of public sectororganisations. TASK 1P1 Describing the development of public servicesPublic services are the facilities which are provided by government of a nation to itscitizens. These services are provided by the government of UK to their citizens for no or lowprices. It is majorly important for a government to develop public services in order to ensurewelfare of their population. In this contemporary world, it is even more important for a nation todevelop their public services due to various reasons; first being the rapidly increasing population.With increasing population, it is important for a nation to provide effective public services.Another reason is contemporary lifestyle; in current world, lifestyle of people is toxic as theyhave to suffer from pollution, harmful chemicals all day and in order to make sure their healthand well being, public services must be developed (Biehl and et.al., 2015). . 1
In United Kingdom, public services are developing day by day in which they face variousproblems. These problems involve managing population growth and securing personal data. Inorder to better understand the development in public services, few examples of development areconsidered mentioned below:Reshaping economic growth model: Development of public services refers to thedeveloped infrastructure and approach of these services so that maximum people can get benefitfrom these services. The government of UK redefined their economic growth model in whichthey stated that economic growth of UK will not only rely upon industrialisation and on earningprofits but will also rely upon the development of [public services. This model makes sure that ifpublic services are developing then only it can be said that overall development of country isdone. Collaborative service ecosystem: In this system, government of UK has decided to workwith collaborative systems that is to involve both public and private parties in public services. Itis usually considered that public services are not that effective as they are for free or for lesserprices. In order to rectify this issue and develop public services, UK government decided toinvolve private parties in public services as well (Box, 2015). Insight driven services: Digital technology is the most promising development in publicservices in contemporary world of UK. Government of United Kingdom has enabled their digitaleconomy so that they manage the big data. In this development, they have proposed variousdevelopments in public services. Development in public services describes to development of services provided by thegovernment so that these services can reach to the people who are needy. Digital technology ismost promising factor behind the development of public services in United Kingdom. From theabove examples, it is clear that public service sector of UK is developing continually andproviding effective services to general public. P2 Outlining the development of a selected public service organisationNational Health Services is the most effective and efficient organisation which provideshealth care services of public. This organisation works for welfare of patients. This organisationwas developed in accordance to National health service act 1946. From its establishment, thisorganisation has developed continuously. These developments are made by the government of2
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