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What are the four basic models of healthcare
WEBThe most common view is that there are four basic ‘models’ of health care in the developed countries, although in reality many countries have a mix of models. 1. The private insurance model. This approach has the least state involvement in direct funding or provision of health services. To get health insurance, you need to make regular
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Why the US can easily afford universal health care
WEBOne of the main arguments for the need for fundamental change is that lack of or inadequate insurance amongst the poorest and most socially deprived Americans leads to extremely high numbers failing to seek or access health care checks or treatment compared with other high income countries. Indeed in 2010 the Commonwealth Fund …
Austerity and mental health: the extent of the human impact.
WEBThis week in a speech at the UN in Geneva, the UN ’ s special rapporteur for health, Dr Dainius Puras, delivered a report explicitly linking worsening mental health with austerity, inequality and job insecurity. This report is the latest from the UN to highlight some of the human impacts of the austerity project that has characterised the political …
Mental health declining, what’s the plan
WEBAnalysis by the BMA has found that funding for mental health services is far lower than it needs to be. If the government genuinely wants to meet mental health needs, the BMA notes, it must protect the funding from inflation and double the money from the £2.3bn currently promised for mental health services to £5.2bn.
Beware the Irish model of healthcare!
WEBA recent research paper on private health expenditure and the affordability of private financing of health care in Ireland warns us that “reliance on private health expenditure as a funding mechanism undermines the fundamental goals of equity and appropriate access within the health care system.” Another research paper puts it even …
Why is there a crisis in our mental health services
WEBThe authors suggest that part of the reason for the growth in demand is the willingness to admit problems. The evidence also shows a steady rise in mental health issues across the population as a whole. Economic uncertainty, the influence of social media and rising expectations of life have been suggested as factors. 92% of mental …
Mental Health: a stronghold of private provision
WEBIn mental health services the NHS reliance on private providers can be much greater. Department of Health figures compiled by the Nuffield Trust showed a massive 24% of mental health spending was from non-NHS providers in 2012/13, and that private provision was growing at the expense of the NHS: “funding for independent …
Integrated Care Systems – Q&A
WEBKey points From 1 July new Integrated Care Systems will replace the existing local commissioners for health (CCGs) and take on some extra functions. ICSs will cover larger areas (42) and have capped budgets, but almost all are starting with deficits. ICS boards contain representatives from hospitals, local authorities, GPs, community …
Private equity investing in UK healthcare – how does it work, and …
WEBUK healthcare companies have become a major target for private equity investors in recent years, according to a report earlier this year from consultancy LangBuisson, with 150 deals struck since 2021. For some time private equity has been investing in the care and education sector and in mental health hospitals, but now …
Q&A: Babylon Health
WEBBabylon says the technology is a form of artificial intelligence (AI). The app can be personalised by the use of a dashboard of the users health statistics acquired either by the phone (exercise regime etc.) or via supplemental devices. Babylon will supply users with blood testing kits for liver and kidney function, thyroid function, vitamin
NHS Reorganisation – a never ending story
WEBNHS Reorganisation – a never ending story. June 28, 2021. For the first 26 years of its life after it was launched on July 5 1948 the NHS was hardly changed in structure. But since 1974 a regular churn of reorganisations and structural adjustments has consumed huge amounts of management time and energy, often with highly …
Collapse of private company partner in community diagnostics hub
WEBThe private cancer diagnostic and treatment company Rutherford Health has been placed into liquidation. Only eight months ago the opening of a new community diagnostics hub (CDH) within a partnership between the company’s subsidiary Rutherford Diagnostics and the NHS’s Somerset Foundation Trust (SFT) was heralded as “game …
Are GPs already privatised or still part of the NHS
WEBKey facts. 27% of GPs are salaried employees of their practice. There are 36,000 full-time equivalent GPs (including trainees and locums) The average number of patients per practice rose from 7,100 to 8,900 between 2014/15 and 2020/21 – the number of practices fell from 8,000 to 6,800.. 3% of contracts are APMS (typically used to …
US company in takeover of network of GP practices
WEBFebruary 4, 2021. Operose Health Ltd, the UK arm of the large US healthcare insurance provider Centene Corporation, is to take over AT Medics, one of the leading providers of primary care services in London. The Lowdown understands that the details of the change of ownership will be presented to all PCCCs (Primary Care Commissioning Committees
Operose flogged off, with 60 GP practices
WEBBy John Lister. The giant American health corporation Centene has now completed a divestment of all its health care investments in England by selling off its subsidiary Operose, which had controversially acquired 60 GP practices, mainly in London.. This marks the end of what the Financial Times saw as an attempt by Centene to open …
Centene sells off Circle: will its GP practices be next to go
WEBAugust 29, 2023. Centene, a major US health insurer, has just agreed to sell off its largest British acquisition, Circle Healthcare, which owned the UK’s biggest chain of private hospitals. The US corporation’s British subsidiary Operose, which had previously bought up a minority share of Circle in 2019, only bought the remaining 60% of the
The privatisation of social care
WEBThe National Audit Office warned earlier this year that the total cost of care is projected to rise by 90% for adults aged 18 to 64, and 106% for adults aged 65 and over was due to double in 20 years from £28bn to £55bn per year. The NAO report also noted that local authority spending on care reached its highest ever cash level in 2019-20, at
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