Health Care In The Uk Flashcards

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What are the two types of avoidable mortality?

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Preventable and treatable mortality

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What is amenable mortality?

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Deaths from a collection of diseases that are potentially preventable from effective health care

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What are the categorises of avoidable mortality?

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Circulatory system
Respiratory system
Drug and alcohol
Children and young people

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What are examples of the preventable diseases

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Diabetes, heart disease, smoking

Done by healthy diet and exercise

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Examples of treatable diseases

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Asthma and cystic fibrosis

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What might influence the strategies and policies of healthcare in local authorities?

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Ethnicity, culture, age , wealth, poor housing

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What are the benefits of countries having similar healthcare governance?

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Health care workers can move to another country already knowing policies.
Won’t have to worry about insurance.
Shared technology and resources.
Learn from each other and save lives.

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What are the downfalls for countries having similar healthcare governance?

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Ignoring there own data.
Countries different views due to religion.
Countries different wealth.

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What similarities might various countries want to achieve in health care.

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Hello reduce mortality rate to ease pressure on their health care services

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What were the primary objectives of the health and social care act 2021?

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To improve the quality of care and outcomes for patients.

To reposition the mode of provision so that health service provisions becomes more patient centred and facilitated choice

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How is the medical clinical care in NHS broken down?

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Primary, GPS
Secondary, hospitals
Tertiary, specialist

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What is the NHS constitution?

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Sets out rights for patients, public and staff for what their entitled to.

Outlines nhs commitments to ensure that the nhs operates fairly and effectively.

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What are the nhs constitution principles?

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  1. Available to all
  2. Access to services for free
  3. High standards of excellence and professionalism
  4. Patients at heart of everything
  5. Nhs works across organisational boundaries.
  6. Best values for tax payers money
  7. Accounts led to public that it serves
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What are the NHS constitution values?

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  1. Working together for patients, making sure they are number 1 priority.
  2. Respect and dignity, valuing every person and take what they say seriously.
  3. Commitment to quality of care, striving to get basic care and ask for feedback.
  4. Compassion, to respond with humanity and kindness.
  5. Improving lives, helps patients quality of life by using your professionalism.
  6. Everyone counts, no discrimination.
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What are the NHS constitution rights?

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  1. Access to health services
  2. Quality of care and environment
  3. Nationally approved treatment and drugs
  4. Respect consent and confidentiality
  5. Informed choices
  6. Involvement in your health care and nhs
  7. Complaints and redress
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What is the nhs long plan strategies?

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  1. Making sure everyone get the best start in life
  2. Delivering world class care for major health problems
  3. Supporting people to age well
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What does the strategy making sure everyone gets best start in life involve?

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  1. Reducing still births.
  2. Ensuring most women can benefit from continuity of carer
  3. Providing extra support for perinatal mothers at risk of premature birth.
  4. Taking further action on childhood obesity
  5. Increase funding for childrens mental health
  6. Grinding down waiting lists for autism assessments
  7. Providing right care for children with learning disabilities
  8. Delivering best treatment for children with cancer
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What does the strategy delivering world class care for major health problems involve?

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  1. Preventing heart attacks, strokes and dementia
  2. Proving education and exercise programs
  3. Saving more lives by diagnosis early
  4. Investing in spotting and treating lung conditions early
  5. Spending at least 2.3 billion on nhs
  6. Delivering community based physical and mental care
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What does the strategy of supporting people to age well involve?

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  1. Increasing funding for primary and community care
  2. Bring together different professionals
  3. Helping more people to live independently at home longer
  4. Developing more rapid community response teams
  5. Improving recognition of careers
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How do we delivery these strategies of the NHS long term plan?

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  1. Doing things differently
  2. Preventing illness and tacking health inequalities
  3. Backing our workforce
  4. Making better use of data and digital technology
  5. Getting the most out of tax payers investments
21
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What is the effect of covid-19 on the long term nhs plan?

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Major health issues such as cancer, mental health, cardio and multi morbidity risen in waiting lists and appointments pushed back

22
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What is the NHS peoples plan?

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It sets out actions to support transformation across the whole NHS

Focuses on how we must all continue to look after each other and foster culture of belonging

Increase the support and recognition for our people

23
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What are the strategies of NHS peoples plan?

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  1. Responding to new challenges and opportunities
  2. Looking after our people
  3. Belonging in the nhs
  4. New ways of working and delivering
  5. Growing for the future
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What does the strategy responding to new challenges and opportunities involve?

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  1. Highlighting existing and deep rooted inequalities
  2. Flexible and remote working
  3. Remote consultations
  4. Returning and new staff
  5. Shared purpose and permission to act
  6. Health and well being of people
  7. Support for care homes
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What does the strategy looking after our people involve?

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  1. Flue vaccine
  2. Home working support
  3. Rest and respite
  4. Infection risk
  5. Proving PPE
  6. Bullying and harassment
  7. Violence against staff
  8. Safe spaces for staff rest
  9. Psychological support and treatment
  10. Support for people through sickness
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What does the strategy of belonging in the NHS involve?

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  1. Recruitment and promotions
  2. Health and well being
  3. Leadership diversity
  4. Building confidence to speak up
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What does the strategy new ways of working and delivering involve?

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  1. Deployment and redeployment support
  2. Unskilled staff
  3. Technology enhance learning
  4. Primary care teams
  5. Maintaining education
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What does the strategy growing for the future involve?

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  1. Mental health
  2. Cancer
  3. Advance clinical practice
  4. Expanding shortages specialists
  5. Increasing local recruitment
  6. Growing apprenticeships
  7. Expanding the primary care workforces
  8. Building local hubs