DEBATE AND DILEMMAS IN HEALTH

Debate and Dilemmas in Health

Debate and Dilemmas in Health

Introduction

This paper is going to look at the Advantages of involving commercial companies in the National Health Service (NHS) and some of the policies that have been put in place to ague some of the issues that might occur during these changes. The Parliamentary United Kingdom endorsed the Health and Social Care Act; emerge as a widespread restructuring of the National Health Service structure in United Kingdom till today. It is put forward to bring to an end NHS Strategic Health Authorities and Primary care trusts (PCTs). After that, about £60 to £80 billion of health care funds will be reassigned from PCTs to a large number of clinical commissioning groups, to a certain extent operate by the general practitioners in UK. By the year 2013, a new body “Public Health England” is intended to be established.

Overview of NHS

National Health Service employees and physicians are mainly concerned regarding the bill's aim to revise key NHS pillar to convert any willing provider while the current system guarantees the required service utterly through NHS and its direct partners and affiliates. Reforming the principle of the NHS of any willing provider takes away that requirement and permits providers of the private sector to have a say within the NHS, possibly introduction of the private sector pricing and operations in the NHS may results in the forced closure of local NHS because of the intense competition by the private industry. Such circumstances can result even in bankruptcy of the local NHS. The Medical Association of Britain has believed that health care forcing commissioners to tender agreements on the way for any willing provider such as commercial companies may result in destabilization of economies of local health, as well as fragmented patients care. Increased price competition into the mix provide an opportunity to large commercial firms to penetrate in the market of NHS and pursue the most cost-effective contracts, in order to make use of their size in order to reduce on price that, as an outcome smash up local health services.

NHS hospitals have always been constructed by the private companies. Once built, NHS hospitals have to deal with their own funds, maintenance and service; however, the assets were owned by public. The purpose is to enhance the health care facilities quality by employing the skills and expertise of private sector companies. This imitative is endorsed by numerous prominent associations including NHS Estates, the NHS Modernization Agency, the Department of Health, and the Kind's Fund; furthermore, to institutions of architecture such as the Built Environment and Commission for Architecture.

What is meant by commercial company?

A commercial company Is the one which runs its operations legally in order earn profit and maximize shareholders equity. The basic propose of the a commercial business is to attain growth and be as sustainable as possible. In the course of doing so, they also engage themselves in certain activities which are beneficial for the entire ...