UK Healthcare Systems: An Overview of Public and Social Care

This report provides an overview of the UK healthcare system, focusing on public health and social care provisions. It highlights the roles of key stakeholders such as the National Health Service (NHS), the World Health Organization (WHO), and various governmental bodies like the Secretary of State for Health and the Care Quality Commission. The report also discusses the modernization efforts within the NHS, emphasizing the integration of care services to address the complex needs of individuals with mental and physical disabilities. Furthermore, it touches upon the importance of partnership work and collaborative approaches in delivering effective healthcare, referencing the WHO's role in setting global health standards and policies. This analysis aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the structure and function of the UK healthcare system.

Healthcare Systems in the UK
Illustrating key aspects of the Healthcare
Systems in the UK
Public health care – Public healthcare in United
Kingdom National Health Service provide for
public. England's public health service provides
health care to all resident permanent at free of cost.
Government of UK set overall budgets for NHS.
Social care – Social care in UK means that rules
and regulations related to social welfare, personal
care, protection services to children and adults
according to needs and helps to poor and old
people who disable, illness, disability and poverty
so its main purpose is give social care to weaker
section of society.
Role of NHS:-
 Its main role is improve health
services for people.
 Collecting and analysing health
status and compare current and
last year data because that
purpose is prevent illness.
 NHS also role of educate to
public about health care.
Modernization of UK NHS
It means that update services from traditional to
modern way. Because it expand their branches in
different countries. It also adopt and establish new
techniques for provide better service to peoples of
all countries.
Integrated care – Integrated care means that if
person disable with mental and substance may die
decades earlier than the average person and primary
care services produces the best affective treatment
for people with many healthcare needs so it’s called
integrated care.
Main stakeholders of the UK healthcare systems
Public health care – It is a type of stakeholder it means that any individual
and group who provide, receives and manages or pays for healthcare so it’s
called stakeholders. It also work for provide health service to public.
WHO – It is engaging stakeholder because it makes health policies and plan
about health sector for improve health and meet objective as predetermined
goals.
Social care – It is also engaged in social work like welfare that helps to poor
and needy people that disable and aged so social care provide helps to them so
it is work as stakeholders.
NHS- It is also a type of stakeholder because it provides free service to peoples
and its main objective is prevent illness and improves health.
Integrated care – It also works as stakeholder because it is helps to those
people who is disable with mental and physical compare than normal person so
its main purpose is give super treatment to them so it provide service as
stakeholder.
Secretary of state for health – It is works as stakeholder and it is a British
cabinet on head of department and its responsibility of health and social care
in National health service.
Care quality commission – It is a non-departmental public body of health
care of UK and it’s inspect and regulate services of health and social care. It
includes activities like treatment, care and support, hospitals and ambulances.
Health education England – It’s also a stakeholder and its purpose is provide
national leadership for education and training of health within workforce of
England. Its main objective is educate to all people about health.
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WHO – It stands for world health organization
and it’s responsible for survey of world health
and health care of world level. WHO also makes
rules and regulations about health and prevent
many problems and illness. It is founded in 1948
by US, India, Australia, Mexico and Brazil for
improve health.
Partnership work – It refers to that work
related health do by two or persons or group like
trust share goals and values. It daily
communicate with each other and work together.
If any case that come to care home so they direct
refers to hospitals.