P6 Unit 6 Health and Social Care

In England, there are three sectors which provide health care, social care and children’s services; these sectors are Statutory, Independent, and Voluntary. However, care provision is either delivered as formal care – which is considered as the three sectors above – or as informal care – which is often referred to as the fourth sector. Firstly, health care is defined as being the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, illness, and injury human beings. This also includes other physical and mental impairments – for example a person

An Act to establish and make provision about a National Health Service Commissioning Board and clinical commissioning groups and to make other provision about the National Health Service in England; to make provision about public health in the United Kingdom; to make provision about regulating health and adult social care services; to make provision about public involvement in health and social care matters, scrutiny of health matters by local authorities and cooperation between local authorities and commissioners of health care services; to make provision about regulating health

The four main sectors in Britain that provide welfare to our societies are the public sector, the private sector, the voluntary sector, and the informal sector. The public sector are the services that are subsidised, controlled and managed by the state. For example, the NHS, most services are free within the NHS unless they are unnecessary cosmetic services and are funded by taxes and national insurance.

Clinical Commissioning Groups are made up of nurses, doctors and other professionals who use their knowledge of local health needs to plan and buy services for their local community from any service provider that meets NHS standards and expenditures. Examples of possible services could be NHS hospitals, private sector providers and voluntary organisations. Over time resulting in better care for patients, designed with knowledge of local services and commissioned in response to their specific

Secondary Care: Emergency and urgent care, Ambulance Trusts, NHS Trusts, Mental Health Trusts and Care Trusts

In an attempt to expand the organisation, the government recently encouraged NHS trusts to venture abroad with the explicit aim of generating income internationally from the NHS brand, which can be ploughed back into NHS care in the UK. This duplicates schemes such as that of Moorlands Eye Hospital in London, which in 2007, built a unit under the same name in Dubai. Children's hospital Great Ormond Street also has interests abroad. This is an example of market development as the organisation is venturing into an overseas market. The NHS also offers clinical support services such as Radiology scanning and hot report of results. Since the NHS can win contracts outside England such as Scotland, Wales and even Europe to cross subsidise clinical

The National Health Service (NHS) is the UKs national healthcare system. The NHS was established in 1948 and its primary goal was to provide universal healthcare aimed at diagnosing and treating diseases. Over time, their focus has shifted to a proactive approach and they now strive to provide quality healthcare through evidenced-based outcomes.

Benefits: NHS pays for preventive services, including screening, immunization and vaccination programs. Inpatients and outpatient hospital care, physician services, impatient and outpatient drugs. Some dental care, eye care, mental health care and some care for those with learning disabilities. Palliative care, some long-term care (mainly for people with continuing medical or skilled-nursing need, rehabilitation, most long-term care are provided by local authorities and private sector) including physiotherapy and home visits by community based nurses.

In the England healthcare plan its coverage is universal. All “ordinarily resident” in England are automatically entitled to health care, largely free at the point of use, through the NHS. Nonresidents with a European Health Insurance Card are also entitled to free care. Most private hospital care—largely for elective conditions—is financed through supplementary private voluntary health insurance, which covered 10.9 percent of the U.K. population in 2012. The bulk of this was provided through companies (3.97 million policies) versus individual policies (0.97 million). Whereas the United States it difference, about 64 percent of U.S. residents received health insurance coverage from private voluntary health insurance (VHI): 54 percent received

To redefine the boundaries between health and social care. Much of the continuing care of elderly and disabled people was provided by the NHS. Now much of that has been re-defined as social care and is the responsibility of local authorities.

of local healthcare providers which you will go to whenever you need any medical attention.

National Health Service trusts have the mandate to ensure that patients in hospitals get high quality health care and that money is spent efficiently and accountability is observed.

*No “gatekeeper” for non-network -free to see any doctor or specialist you chose- Can choose your cure specialist.

Health services which will be used interchangeably with health organisations in the context of this paper, refers to establishments that deliver different types of services which are health related. These services range from disease prevention, through health promotion, to curative services, rehabilitation, aged care and disability services. (Black & Gruen, 2005) They could be private, public or charitable organisations. Examples include: hospitals, aged care residential homes, pathology centres among others.

The health sector is things to do with people’s health and wellbeing at any point throughout their life. Many centres deal with health and help people to be healthier and live for longer. These range from hospitals to your local clinic. Also, clients can range from the age of a new-born baby to an extremely elderly person. In health care, it involves diagnosing illnesses, prescribing medicine and treatment, and preventing future illnesses. They can also help cure physical and psychological problems, such as a torn cartilage (physical) or post-natal depression (psychological.) Health care is provided by many practitioners, e.g. dentists, midwives, surgeons and chiropractors. ‘Health care’ can mean Primary care, which is usually a GP surgery, secondary care, which is a hospital, and tertiary care, which are specialist care centres. Most of the parts in the health centre are funded by the NHS, which is funded by taxes that people