Is It Better To Privatize The NHS

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Is it better to privatize or nationalize the NHS in general? In this essay I will explore the issues that surrounded the potential arrival of the NHS in 1943 along with the issues of the previous system and analyse and dissect them. I will also analyse the issues that hover over the NHS today and weather the private or national system is better or worse in certain aspects. In 1943 perhaps the most important issue is weather the medical services should adopt the method of a full time salary service with the doctor acting as a civil servant whilst being employed under the state or should we continue with the existing method of the doctor being employed by the patient. At the time (1943) the majority of doctors believed that the medical services were inadequate and badly co ordinated (this was a reality and had no bearing on the doctors opinions on weather to privatize or nationalise the NHS). There were three main services at the time. The Public Health Service, Consultants and Specialists that were situated inside and outside of hospitals. In 1943 the health service was mostly private and the system was unequal and fragmented. If the system continued to stay privatized we would have different people in different areas becoming their own little branches dotted around the…show more content…
Because you cant imagine if you privatize the NHS and all of a sudden it just works as one massive private organization because quite simply that’s not going to happen. Today they’ve already separated it into primary care trusts that are each allocated their own funds. Essentially they have already got the ball rolling on privatization. Think about how these trusts are going to communicate if one suddenly ups its game and develops a new, mangled way of working and somebody is trying to move between trusts? People wouldn’t even be able to relocate around the country very
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