As politicians in the US debate the best health-care policies to replace the current system, the United Kingdom’s National Health Service enjoys huge support from the vast majority of Britons. Despite the high reports of satisfaction with system, many in the UK are calling for reform of the NHS, especially following the UK’s departure from the European Union. Here’s how the NHS works and what reforms may be coming.
CORRECTION (March 6, 2020): At 9:20, a video graphic misspelled the name of Holly Jarman, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan.
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How The United Kingdom’s Health-Care System Works
Been waiting 2 years for nhs treatment, we pay in waiting lists and 3rd rate care, then we have to pay for the drugs on prescription. Its only free for people who dont work, everyone i know either gets health care from their company or pay private insurance for same day care of best quality yet still have to pay nhs on top . Our parents paid for us to benefit, but now we cant get dental care unless we pay thats everyone, most operations cant be done on nhs. The nhs needs teaching hospitals now so trainees are nurses snd cheaper costs using foregin nurses. Our NHS is relying on private medical companies R&D no competition so its not improving, and when you get old, we are having to sell our homes to cover health care for nursing homes all private. Charities are now covering most mental health, we have lost the NHS its getting worse when it should have got better due to lower births and living longer so more paid in to the system, but now we get better treatment private or insurance for private. Government doesnt give it takes from us. Houses should be abundant due to less births so a couple married inherit from 4 parents above 2 each side but its now housing shortage cost more due to immigration who didnt pay into the nhs thus taking property and increasing demand so renters charge more and a mortgage now takes a lifetime when we should have inherited are parents and sell the other one . All because of blairs policy look on the graphs at 1996 onwards it all went wrong when he opened a floodgate instead of trickle and integrating we have areas of different cultures who brought it here and didnt want to live with us like they used to love being british immigrants and we loved them because we felt the same, but now cockneys dont exist its an horrible country compared to 20 years ago the crimes prisons are increasing and poverty, traffic, working two jobs when we should be on 3 day week better off housing surplus and climate better due to passed on wealth. private want the best and pay more for less hours thus we get better service and better tech due to competition and a choice of specialists services instead of get what you given and lucky if that. Dogs get better care under charities funding PDSA RSPCA etc. cancer progress on treatments is down to private and charities the NHS cant afford to do that its a broken machine paying bad wages using cheapest method it can. Like education private vs free ones always better.
I live in the UK– a big part of the problem they were discussing in this video was that the NHS waiting times are growing. This is massively caused by 12 years of Conservative underfunding and back door privatisation. The high majority of British people love and need the NHS. We won't let them take it. #torysout
The NHS is for people and here in the u.s healthcare is for the pharmaceutical corporations to make money and tell
Their d.c puppets what to do!
ultracheap healthcare by overgood doctors😊
Healthcare in the United Kingdom is a devolved matter, with England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales each having their own systems of publicly funded healthcare, funded by and accountable to separate governments and parliaments, together with smaller private sector and voluntary provisions.
As a result of each country having different policies and priorities, a variety of differences have developed between these systems since devolution.
Despite there being separate health services for each country, the performance of the National Health Service (NHS) across the UK can be measured for the purpose of making international comparisons.
In a 2017 report by the Commonwealth Fund ranking developed-country healthcare systems, the United Kingdom was ranked the best healthcare system in the world overall and was ranked the best in the following categories: Care Process (i.e. effective, safe, coordinated, patient-oriented) and Equity.
The UK system was ranked the best in the world overall in the previous three reports by the Commonwealth Fund in 2007, 2010 and 2014.
The UK's palliative care has also been ranked as the best in the world by the Economist Intelligence Unit.
On the other hand, in 2005–09 cancer survival rates lagged ten years behind the rest of Europe, although survival rates later increased.
In 2015, the UK was 14th (out of 35) in the annual Euro health consumer index.
The index has been criticized by academics, however.
The 2018 OECD data, which incorporates in health a chunk of what in the UK is classified as social care, has the UK spending £3,121 per head.
Healthcare spending as a share of the gross domestic product (GDP) has increased since 1997, where it was 6.8 percent.
By 2019, healthcare expenditure in the UK amounted to 10.2 percent of GDP.
In 2017, the UK spent £2,989 per person on healthcare, around the median for members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
My pain and sorrow is gone thank you Dr Kunle Herbal, on YouTube for being responsible through the natural herbal medicine you gave me am greatful doc
What if you go to a private hospital? would the NHS still pay for your healthcare?
I have a story to share. I came to the UK as an international student and I have been living here since sep 2021. Recently, I have been on hike in the Scottish Countryside and knocked off my k-9 tooth by stumbling on a rock. I was bleeding on the top of the summit and it was a sunday. I went there with a hiking society group and two of their leaders were with me and called the NHS, I was bleeding from my gum and in a lot of pain. they asked me lots of questions but they made sure I was treated and they arranged me an emergency dental appointment in a nearest hospital and when I went there I was not asked for any documents, papers or insurance. I was straight up treated and before going in when the receptionist told me that I won't be charged a single penny because I am younger than 26, I was just grateful. I was starving and probably felt a lil bit dizzy from fatigue and hunger. They offered me glucose water and helped me to drink.💙
the problem with this video is that it ignores the fact that the medical systems are all about distributing patent medicine which is alway inferior to the natural unpatentable substance which inspired its creation. The goal there is to have this cost more to everyone, the "innocent victims" are the people who won't get useful things like surgery after an accident and the people who have to pay for all of the useless or harmful things for people who'd be better off with a witch doctor. Add to that their use of their profits to make natural substances and information about them more difficult to access. And the same psychopaths are also destroying health by imposing their horrible poisons on agriculture. Using their profits to legislate favorable conditions for factory farmers who are accessories after the fact in the current democide while legislating the end of small productive clean farmers in the name of fictitious "carbon footprint" idiocies. In other words, this video can only do harm and can't do any good except if some brainwashed folks are able to look at my comment here and profit from it. It's already quite unlikely even before the fact that I'm typically shadow-banned on youtube. Unlikely because brainwashed people stay that way.
i guess it's a simple and righteous concept. In the UK they refuse to put a price on someone's life, they see everyone is of equal value… And long may that continue
12 hour wait in emergency departments waiting to see a medic.
Long waiting times for routine operation due to shortage of doctors and high demand due to increasing population
Huge rise in doctors and nurses emigrating to better run countries
The UK has the lowest number of scanners in the oecd countries
Operations being rationed.
Doctors surgeries have no diagnostic equipment except a blood pressure monitor, why not have mri scanners as well, surely they can afford it?
The UK has the lowest number of hospita beds per head of population in the whole of Europe
Long waits for ambulance services
The list is endless
It's certainly not free. It's all paid for on advance
Foreigners visiting the UK are charged 150% the going rate for any medical treatment because the do not qualify for free treatment
It's also set to get worse in the future. A tweedle dum government throwing money into the system won't work for long unfortunately, then tweedle dee government will be re elected and cuts will be made to save money. A never-ending cycle of spend and thrift.
Any idea how many patients are dying because they can't get the treatment they need on time?
if it's free, it's definitely not worth it and unfair. more fair to give people the freedom of choosing their own healthcare.
The NHS has its flaws but is far more efficient than a private system. The NHS procures drugs centrally so gets way lower costs than individual private hospital groups in US. But the best thing is we don't have to put up with relentless ads for prescription drugs on TV! Private health care is also much cheaper in the UK as it has to compete with free. 😀
Bidens full of crap he knows how much money we can save with a single payer system
Not socialism. Socialised healthcare. It’s not communism America. You are being scammed by big pharma.
Nobody I know was concerned about Brexit and the NHS. We wanted our independence from a dictatorial EU, our borders, our trade. Unfortunately our politicians have betrayed us, our borders are wide open.
Reforming the NHS is Tory double speak for getting their hands on tax payers money through their private ventures.
Sd 1979 00 years mono London medical
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Well it doesn't really work well atm
Sir, after winning two world wars . Great Britain was to become a land fit for Heroes, starting with the NHS.
Please I am interested
Also how l want to become one of yours
One of the worst healthcare systems
Appears the most socialist, what like USA fire, police, army and schooling ???? Lol
I'd personally suggest not to recruit doctors who had a working background in Hong Kong.
I have a dream uk NHS will have a experiment that will change in mental health care forever somehow❤❤❤❤
C v’la guez en plus t moche
Mathias en 3 mots
Bh Mathias va te faire mettre
C’est pas si mal
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Dear Americans, your system is not broken it’s corrupt.
UK: 67.886.108 citizens and USA: 334.914.895 citizens in 2024. Difference are 267.028.787 citizens, it´s a bit hard to compare