UK Healthcare System: Performance Indicators, Funding and Workforce

This report provides an overview of the United Kingdom's healthcare system, focusing on performance indicators, funding mechanisms, and workforce. It highlights that the UK provides public health care facilities to its residents, funded through general taxation, with approximately 8.4% of the GDP spent on health care. Key performance indicators discussed include patient satisfaction, quality of health care, productivity, financial performance, safety, and staff availability. The report also touches upon the roles of various regulatory bodies, the government's responsibilities in health legislation, and the structure of the healthcare workforce, noting an increase in NHS employment as of September 2017. References to NHS Confederation, Department of Health and Social Care, and other sources support the analysis of the UK healthcare system's performance and structure.

Introduction
The United Kingdom provide
public health care facilities to its
permanent residents, it is almost
around 58 million. The health care
facilities are free and paid out of
the general taxation. About 18% of
the income tax goes to the health
care. Almost around 8.4% of the
United Kingdom GDP is spent on
health care.
Health System Performance Indicators
Indicator of Performance to measures of health care system includes:
Patient satisfaction and experience: There are many tried and tested patients surveys are
conducted by NHS and Care quality commission to analyse level of satisfaction and experience
among the people of UK. Survey in 2016 state that 86% patients are satisfied.
Quality of health care: This can be measured in terms of process and also as outcomes such
as, latest evidence and criteria for treatment, implementation of guidelines and referrals.
Productivity or Quantity of health care: To measures the quantity and productivity of health
care system few measures are considered such as, bed occupancy, throughput of patients and
waiting time.
Financial performance: Finance is considered to be a key aspect of health care. UK
government provide a full finance for treatment to its proper residents. NHS increased its
expenditure from £78.881 billion to £120.512 billion in 2016-2017.
Safety: as per the safety criteria the UK health care system is a best among rest there in only
4% people are not in favour but rest believes in the health care facilities provided by NHS.
Availability of staff: In March 2017, across Hospital and Community Health Service, NHS
employed: 106,430 doctors, 285,893 health visitors and nurses, 21,597 midwives, 132,673
scientific and technical staff, 19, 772 ambulance staff, 21,139 managers and 9,974 senior
managers (NHS Confederation, 2018).
Health Care Funding
• Regulating bodies
• Funding of healthcare
service
• Private health
Role of Government
The responsibilities related to health
legislation and general policies in United
Kingdom are lies with Parliament, The
Department of Health and The
Secretary of state for Heath.
The new health care system start its
operations from April 1, 2013 to bring
out the goals set by the Health and
Social Act. The health education
England and NHS trust development
authority, Public Health England takes
their full range of responsibility
(England, 2016).
Health Care Workforce
As at September 30, 2017 the staff
working for the NHS as full time
employment was 1.21 million, the
increase of 17,900 is recorded that
is 1.5% since September 2016.
The independent sector increase
from 40,800 to 46,800 from
September 2016 to September
2017 (Department of health and
social care, 2013).
Figure 1.health
system performance
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