Health care system_UK英国医疗保健系统简介.pptx

healthcare system in England largest and oldest single-payer healthcare system in the world “free at point of use” you are born directly in the NHS free emergency care to everyone publicly funded healthcare system funded from a single insurance pool – run by the state a form of monopsony financed primarily through general taxation requires very little patient cost-sharing  mainly for outpatient prescription drugs, dental care, and optometry care 60%: to pay staff 20%: pay for drugs and other supplies 20%: split between buildings, equipment and training costs on the one hand and medical equipment, catering and cleaning on the other England spends the least: only £1,875 per head faster access to the doctor and consultant don‘t have to wait so long free choice of the consultant and the doctor rooms like suits pay for all the treatment The way a patient takes to see the GP ring surgery reception – voice mail chest pains?  dial 999 choose between two options appointment – go and see the sister own doctor: one week to wait “quick team” 10 minutes per patient after birthday appointment blood tests: routine or fasting blood test 3 weeks after this: sister tells you the results; weight, height and blood pressure serious: GP  consultant under 65 years: pay for your medicine exception: if someone is unemployed treatment or operation are for free up to 65: medicine free Vocabulary monopsony - Monopsony is a state in which demand comes from one source. If there is only one customer for a certain good, that customer has a monopsony in the market for that good outpatient – a person who goes to the hospital for treatment but does not stay there http://www.nhs.uk/NHSEngland/thenhs/about/Pages/overview.aspx /doc11/The-Swedish-Health-Care-System-2009 /wiki/National_Health_Service_%28England%29#Funding /parlymoney.pdf