Weaknesses of the UK Healthcare System

The healthcare system in Great Britain faces several weaknesses, including corruption and abuse by managers, employees, and outsiders. The National Health Service (NHS) system is also vulnerable to manipulation and misuse, particularly with regards to human rights and patient care. Additionally, there are concerns about the quality of treatment provided, with patients having to wait long periods for appointments and treatment. Furthermore, healthcare workers face low salaries and inadequate support, leading to demotivation and poor services. The system also struggles to provide adequate treatment to terminally ill patients, resulting in increased death rates and suffering.

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 of 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 Human Rights and the crowd of PC of this country are a big thing. They are a
problem to the government of UK and the various departments of the country. They
defend the people who break laws related to healthcare (Lane, 2016). They do this in the
name of Human rights or PC.
 There are less options available for people who are 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 also lack in quality.
 There are many patients in the country who are terminally ill but their 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 lower chance of getting cured. This increases the death rate of
people in the country and makes suffering 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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