Weaknesses of the UK Healthcare System

The healthcare system in Great Britain faces several weaknesses, including corruption among managers and employees, abuse of the NHS system by outsiders, lack of options for patients, unfair treatment of government-appointed doctors and nurses, and denial of treatment to terminally ill patients. The system is also open to manipulation by people from outside the country, leading to a strain on resources and quality of care.

Weaknesses of the Health care system in Great Britain
 The healthcare system of UK is open to abuse which is happening within the country and
the outside people are also affecting it (Ferlie, 2013). This is because the managers,
employees and other people who work in this sector are involved in corruption. They leak
huge amounts of money because there is no proper in charge who is taking care of the
things and processes of this sector. Even if there are people put in the role of control and
monitoring, they do not perform their duty with responsibility and they do not work as
per the expectations.
 The NHS system is disturbed by the people from all over the world. They fiddle with this
system because they do not get appropriate treatment in their own country. The
government of UK allows the outsiders to use the NHS system (Lane, 2016). They come
in UK and talk to the employees of the hospital. It is found that there are thousands of
people who claim that they live in this country. So, neither the hospital, nor the
employees of the hospital can deny them treatment because that would be offensive to the
Human rights of the people of UK.
 The, the HR’s and the crowd of PC of this country are a big thing for the country. They
are a problem to the government of UK and the various departments of the country. They
defend the people who breaks the laws related to healthcare (Lane, 2016). They do this in
the name of Human rights or PC.
 There are less options available for the people under the healthcare system. The people
have to wait for long time for getting the appropriate level of treatment (Ferlie, 2013).
They sometimes wait for moths’ for getting appointments with the specialists or for
getting treated.
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 The healthcare system of Britain is unfair towards the employees of the government. The
government appointed doctors and the nurses do not get paid appropriately and they do
not get the deserving rewards (Gulliford, 2013). Though, few years back the NHS system
reduced the working hours of the doctors, but the salaries are still low as compared to the
effort that they put in. the medical fraternity is not supported adequately and the
healthcare is not facilitated. This reduces their level of motivation and the services
provided by them is also lack in quality.
 There are many patients in the country who are terminally ill but they hospitals deny
them treatment (Ferlie, 2013). This is due to two reasons, one is the hospitals do not have
adequate facilities to treat them and secondly they are busy with too many patients that
they avoid those who have les chance of getting cured. This increases the death rate of
people in the country and they suffer from too much difficulties.
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References:
Ferlie, E., McGivern, G. and Bennett, C., 2013. Making Wicked Problems Governable?: the case
of managed networks in health care. Oxford University Press.
Gulliford, M. and Morgan, M. eds., 2013. Access to health care. Routledge.
Lane, D.C., Monefeldt, C. and Rosenhead, J.V., 2016. Looking in the wrong place for healthcare
improvements: A system dynamics study of an accident and emergency department.
In Operational Research for Emergency Planning in Healthcare: Volume 2 (pp. 92-121).
Palgrave Macmillan UK.
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