Analysis of NHS Healthcare Services and Patient-Centric Approaches

This essay provides an overview of the National Health Service (NHS) in the UK, focusing on its mission to provide healthcare services, especially to the underprivileged. The essay highlights the NHS's commitment to patient-centric care, including mental health services and support for vulnerable populations like the homeless. It discusses the challenges faced by the NHS, such as healthcare access and the need for personalized care, especially for those with severe mental health issues. The essay also mentions the NHS's responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, including fundraising efforts and the impact on healthcare staff. The essay references several academic sources to support its analysis and provides insights into how the NHS is adapting to meet the needs of its diverse patient population.

HEALTHCARE

Essay-1
The main aim of NHS is to serve people and build communities by supporting qualified
healthcare providers who are purely dedicated towards the healthcare services. The main of
NHS is to serve the underprivileged people who lack resources and proper treatments for
their health. Patients often just need a healthcare provider to understand them as a whole. It is
a publicly funded healthcare organisation, which was founded in 1948. NHS does not charge
any amount to the UK residents for most of the medical treatments. At a certain point of time,
NHS provides free practitioners and other emergency treatment, which also excludes the
initial fees of hospitals. Through the help of online facilities, the organisation have been
trying to avail online guidelines to people by explaining them symptoms and conditions.
Therefore, it will include further treatments that includes what to do and what not to do
(Nolte, Brown, Ferguson, and Sole, 2016). Currently, NHS accelerated access collaboration
by appointing it's clinical entrepreneurs who individually different people. NHS often launch
several practises so that consultation to redesign specialist mental health services for these
people can become successful. NHS seeks to support for creation of a new healthcare model
so that it can improve several condition and bring out favourable conditions for people with
severe mental ill health issues, which includes a proposed crisis service and dementia support
service to care for people in the community. Social determinants of health come up with the
disadvantages faced by unprivileged people (Mikelyte, 2017). While catering such people,
NHS discharge homeless clients after treating their underlying health issues which will be
addressed because it is quite obvious that they life on streets can become miserable and their
vulnerability to disease, physical and mental issue. Homelessness can increase the
uncertainties related to health problems, which includes diseases, skin disorders, and
increasing probability of trauma because of physical assault. NHS appoints people and they
give training to their nurses so that they can change their language while talking to the

patients, offer first bites in shelters, and offer foot care clinics and then donate female
hygiene items (Law, Patterson, and Muers, 2019). Recently, introduction to homelessness
healthcare in hospitals can improve staff knowledge and attitude towards the patients.
According to the Homeless reduction Act, 2017, it come up with personalised approach and
method to have ongoing care to severe ill health, poor engagement with the primary care,
which is easily accessible after discharge. NHS has started spending more than 85 million
every year on homeless, patient`s costs, which is nearly eight times more than the housed
person. This population is 40 times more likely to be registered with general practitioner.
Recently for the coronavirus treatment, the public of UK has raised nearly 5 million dollars
with one million clap by NHS staff (Raman, 2019).

References
Raman, S., 2019. Attitudes towards homeless people, beliefs and burnout among NHS staff in
physical and mental health work settings (Doctoral dissertation, University of Southampton).
Mikelyte, R., 2017. Improving Care for People with Dementia in NHS Continuing Care
Facilities: Enhancing the Mealtime Experience for Older Patients, their Relatives and
Staff (Doctoral dissertation, University of Kent,).
Law, K., Patterson, T.G. and Muers, J., 2019. Experiences of healthcare assistants working
with clients with dementia in residential care homes. Dementia, 18(2), pp.644-659.
Nolte, L., Brown, R., Ferguson, S. and Sole, J., 2016, August. Creating ripples: Towards
practice based evidence for Narrative Therapy within NHS contexts. In Clinical Psychology
Forum.