A Comprehensive Report on Government Funding and the NHS (EAP 2)

This report examines the critical issue of government funding for the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK. It explores the arguments both in favor of and against increased funding, highlighting the financial pressures and operational challenges faced by the NHS due to budgetary constraints and rising healthcare demands. The report discusses the impact of funding on service quality, patient care, and the ability of the NHS to meet the needs of the population. It also delves into the debate surrounding tax rates, public willingness to pay for healthcare, and the balance between different spending priorities within the government. The report concludes that increased government funding is crucial for the NHS to improve its quality of services and deliver additional facilities to patients. It also emphasizes that financial resources provided by the government are used for identifying new methods of treatment in order to deal with harmful diseases.

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INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................1
Body Paragraph 1-Point 1................................................................................................................1
Body paragraph 2.............................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Should the government increase funding for the NHS. National Health a and social care
organisation which provides the free services for those individuals who doest not afford high
medical expenses. It gives the effective process of working. Preset assignment based on should
government support NHS for funding. Present question is based on funding for NHS, it is the
social voluntary organisation who provides free medical services for poor or middle class people.
Government plays a very important role in order to collect the finds from people in which they
make changes in tax policies and rates in order to stable the economy growth. Present report will
discuss on the same topic weather it is good or not for health and social care services. Apart from
that it will also discuss the favour and against implication on the results. NHS is the government
organisations which collects funds from public in order to adjust the services of health care and
protect the health of individuals.
Body Paragraph 1-Point 1
The issue is that in recent years NHS has been protected while others budget. Such as
those for local government services and policing has been subject to significant cuts. Health care
services are facing financial and operational pressures due to heavy financial crises (Does the
NHS need more money, 2017). In order to focus on the demand target, Health care is rising for
several reasons. In order to focus on the population it has been increasing continuously. There
are several issues and challenges through which health care sector suffers from many hurdles.
Mismatch between for services and funding is creating significant challenges in order to
overcome from those challenges. Government needs to adopt effective process of strategies and
action. On the other side, people are not ready to pay higher tax to the government due to less
income. On the other side, with the helps of high demand of services government cannot collect
the enough funds for the health care services (Does the NHS need more money, 2017). in the
2015 government announced the increasing budget of £10 billion a year between 2014/2015 and
2020/21. In terms of health care services it is great to get more funds in order to reduce the health
challenges of the people. Overall, government facing heavy issues in terms of collecting funds
for the organisation (England, N. H. S., 2016).
Body paragraph 2
NHS is considered to be as most treasured national institution. But the present funds
provided by the legal authority to NHS is not sufficient for catering the neds of business , worker
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or service users. As NHS is providing good quality of services to its patients, there has been
increase in number of customers. Innovation as well as technological factors has supported
business entity to improve and maintain reputation in the market. There variables has provided
firm an opportunity to gain customer loyalty and develop strong relationship with them. But now
the situation is that institution does not have sufficient funds as well as resources to fulfil the
needs as well as demands of customer. Due to lack of financial resources company is facing
difficulty in maintaining the balance between demand and supply of goods or services. This
factor has direct as well as significant influence on business performance and buying power of
company. Government should provide additional funds to NHS as it will help business entity in
delivering world class cost-effective, accessible and fair service to patients (Waine, Macgregor,
James and Cutler,2018)
Investments in some health care institution by the legal authorities ever give rise to
controversies both in the highly-developed as well as developing nation. The people in the
country are always incisive about health plan of action of authorities. Few citizen has the view
that the investment of financial resource for health consciousness or promoting welfare
produces better results, while others argue that the construction of great hospital bring more
advantageous to the domestic people.
Some authors as well as researcher perceives that investment made generating on
welfare consciousness brings about the prevention as well as control of several diseases. It
focuses on the fact that the big occurrence come about by the suitable welfare consciousness
events. If citizens become well familiar and active in issues related to health , it will be beneficial
in preventing the break out of many communicable diseases in societies. (Potter, 2018)
Some people in society think that investing in financial resources for building or
creating hospitals and health care institution require more funds. Such people argue that the well
armoured as well as expedited hospitals are fateful to treat many serious disease such as cancer
and cardiac problems. These are the harmful disease which required quick and proper as well as
specialised treatment. If patient is not provided with proper medication Or treatment that in such
case patient might die. In addition, improvement of some familial or heredity difficulty such as
Down bound symptom ,require better hospital care. It has been suggested to government that it
should provide more amount of fund to NHS as an organisation is s play the important function
in supporting people to improve their health, financial resource will assist an organisation in
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improving the quality of products or services as well as providing additional facilities to patients.
When the legal authority in United kingdom invests in NHS or health and social carte sector, it
assists firm or industry, investing in crucial research occurrence in universities as well as
hospitals. It also supports an enterprise in providing training to scientists and doctors. This
factors further helps business entity in identifying new techniques for dealing with harmful
disease which has adverse effect on human health or may some times lead to death of an
individual. Financial assistance to universities developed a supportive environment in which they
can continue to research, innovate and help people in society to prevent spreading of harmful
disease or viruses in the country (Maynard, Altman and Stearns, 2017)
But the other issue is that government has to increase tax rate in order to provide
financial support to NHS. Only few people in the nation are agreed to pay high tax in for
assuring the cash-strapped NHS has the money it needs to provide good care. Some people who
disagreed to pay higher tax charges on services states that the NHS can increase its budget by
spending less amount of financial resources other services such as welfare as well as education.
As per the view of Dan Welling, a senior policy analyst at the King’s Fund NHS is facing many
difficulties and got warnings from inside the health sector around deficient funding, are
increasingly stinging through with to the public in important manner. Some people in UK those
who are ready to pay higher tax for services are to be considered as more concerned about the
future of NHS. Few authors as well as authors considered NHS as most important to society in
terms of preventing harmful disease and improving health (Birch, Harris and Hopkins, 2017)
Some researcher believes that the secretary of state must work in order to achieve
following primary objectives for the NHS these are maintaining or improving quality,
transforming care for the future and achieving fiscal balance. As Improved quality care leads to
reduction in cost. Julie Wood, who is the managing director of NHS Clinical Commissioners
states that It will be important that the next government is required to maintain a steady as well
as favourable surroundings in the NHS that allows medical institution authorization groups to
proceed to transubstantiation care as well as enhance health results for their national people. As
effective source of funding will support NHS in identifying property solutions that caters the
requirement of clients or patients. Lucas Scherdel, national director, Medsin United kingdom
states that deregulation as well as increase ion competition for private involvement will limit
patient services and social welfare are possibly to generate a higher demand from the peoples to
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approach precaution. Due to lack of sufficient funds NHS will fail provide suitable services ,
facilities to patients and would not be able to fulfil the basic requirement of patients. Rob
Webster who is the chief executive of NHS Confederation interpreted that government should
ignore the desire to experimenter with NHS artefact as well as instead built the area for national
welfare leaders to design services close to the need of people (Zwalf, Hodge and Alam, 2017)
CONCLUSION
It has been concluded from the study that government should provide the funds to NHS
as this will help business entity in improving the quality of services and delivering the additional
facilities to patients. The report has concluded that by investing in the health care sector legal
authority can gain higher return on investment. Financial support by the government has
supported NHS in fostering growth and achieving success. It has been identified from the project
that financial resources or funds provided by government issued by NHS are being used by the
institutions for identifying the new methods of treatment in order to deal with harmful disease.
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<https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/publications/articles/does-nhs-need-more-money>.
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