The British National Health Service (NHS)

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The paper discusses the NHS, and describes how, in spite of inadequate budgets, both infant mortality and life expectancy rates are comparable to other modern Western countries. The paper explores how, at the same time that costs are soaring, the number of people needing services is rising, but those contributing to the social security funds are shrinking. The paper concludes that, while the NHS solved a medical emergency in 1948 when it was founded, it will have to continue to grow and evolve, and continue to find creative solutions to the problems it will face in the future, if it is to remain a viable health care solution for Great Britain.

From the Paper:

"Great Britain also struggles with emergency care. In a hospital study conducted in 2003, NHS evaluators evaluated a hospital in the town of Hackney to see whether it met the government's target of a maximum of a four-hour wait for emergency care before either being admitted or released. The hospital performed quite well. However, the hospital knew the evaluation was coming. It pulled medical staff from other departments. The director of the hospital acknowledged that the hospital could not sustain that pace over time and that they had taken extraordinary lengths to keep the emergency room better staffed than it was typically."

Sample of Sources Used:

• National Health Service (NHS). "NHS in England." 2006. Accessed via the Internet 6/14/06. http://www.nhs.uk/.
• Pollard, Stephen. 2000. "Losing Patience with the NHS." New Statesman, Vol. 129, January 10.
• Pollard, Stephen. 2003. "The Genie of Choice: Has It Been Let Loose in Britain? Britain?" National Review, Vol. 55, June 30.
• Rintala, Marvin. Creating the National Health Service: Aneurin Bevan and the Medical Lords. Frank Cass, Publisher: 2003 London and Portland, Oregon. 2003.
• Sewell, Dennis. 2003. "A Question of Late Delivery: Dennis Sewell Finds That, without More Doctors and Nurses, We Shall Wait 12 or 15 Years before the NHS Offers Standards of Care Comparable to Those of Our European Neighbours." New Statesman, Vol. 132, May 19.

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