The national health service

The National Health Service is a service providing care to all the UK’s residents.

It is born in 1948 on July 5. He’s open was an idea of the health secretary Aneurin Bevan who firstly opens Park Hospital in Manchester with the ambition of bringing good healthcare to all the UK’s residents.

The NHS provides free care to all the UK’s residents. This is very significant because in other countries peoples have to pay for their care, and sometimes it might be expensive.  But the dilemma is the fact that in the UK people pay for the NHS when they pay their taxes. The NHS entitles to diagnostic treatment for any illness. People can receive treatment for everything from minor ailments to serious diseases free of charge.

Depending on the nature of their problem, people when ill may be treated by a doctor, dentist or optician and these are the services offers by the NHS. GP services is one of the services offered by the NHS, to benefits from the NHS all the residents should registered to a GP.

Nowadays, the NHS is face to some few problems such as the lack of funding. Like always it’s over budget therefore they have cut thousands of nurses and other staffs jobs to save money which can affect patient care generally.

Reference:  Monetos(2011): "Advantages of the NHS". Available at: http://www.monetos.co.uk/insurance/health-insurance/nhs/advantages/. Accessed(24/06/2011)