Health Care In The Uk Flashcards
What are the two types of avoidable mortality?
Preventable and treatable mortality
What is amenable mortality?
Deaths from a collection of diseases that are potentially preventable from effective health care
What are the categorises of avoidable mortality?
Circulatory system
Respiratory system
Drug and alcohol
Children and young people
What are examples of the preventable diseases
Diabetes, heart disease, smoking
Done by healthy diet and exercise
Examples of treatable diseases
Asthma and cystic fibrosis
What might influence the strategies and policies of healthcare in local authorities?
Ethnicity, culture, age , wealth, poor housing
What are the benefits of countries having similar healthcare governance?
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.
What are the downfalls for countries having similar healthcare governance?
Ignoring there own data.
Countries different views due to religion.
Countries different wealth.
What similarities might various countries want to achieve in health care.
Hello reduce mortality rate to ease pressure on their health care services
What were the primary objectives of the health and social care act 2021?
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
How is the medical clinical care in NHS broken down?
Primary, GPS
Secondary, hospitals
Tertiary, specialist
What is the NHS constitution?
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.
What are the nhs constitution principles?
- Available to all
- Access to services for free
- High standards of excellence and professionalism
- Patients at heart of everything
- Nhs works across organisational boundaries.
- Best values for tax payers money
- Accounts led to public that it serves
What are the NHS constitution values?
- Working together for patients, making sure they are number 1 priority.
- Respect and dignity, valuing every person and take what they say seriously.
- Commitment to quality of care, striving to get basic care and ask for feedback.
- Compassion, to respond with humanity and kindness.
- Improving lives, helps patients quality of life by using your professionalism.
- Everyone counts, no discrimination.
What are the NHS constitution rights?
- Access to health services
- Quality of care and environment
- Nationally approved treatment and drugs
- Respect consent and confidentiality
- Informed choices
- Involvement in your health care and nhs
- Complaints and redress
What is the nhs long plan strategies?
- Making sure everyone get the best start in life
- Delivering world class care for major health problems
- Supporting people to age well
What does the strategy making sure everyone gets best start in life involve?
- Reducing still births.
- Ensuring most women can benefit from continuity of carer
- Providing extra support for perinatal mothers at risk of premature birth.
- Taking further action on childhood obesity
- Increase funding for childrens mental health
- Grinding down waiting lists for autism assessments
- Providing right care for children with learning disabilities
- Delivering best treatment for children with cancer
What does the strategy delivering world class care for major health problems involve?
- Preventing heart attacks, strokes and dementia
- Proving education and exercise programs
- Saving more lives by diagnosis early
- Investing in spotting and treating lung conditions early
- Spending at least 2.3 billion on nhs
- Delivering community based physical and mental care
What does the strategy of supporting people to age well involve?
- Increasing funding for primary and community care
- Bring together different professionals
- Helping more people to live independently at home longer
- Developing more rapid community response teams
- Improving recognition of careers
How do we delivery these strategies of the NHS long term plan?
- Doing things differently
- Preventing illness and tacking health inequalities
- Backing our workforce
- Making better use of data and digital technology
- Getting the most out of tax payers investments
What is the effect of covid-19 on the long term nhs plan?
Major health issues such as cancer, mental health, cardio and multi morbidity risen in waiting lists and appointments pushed back
What is the NHS peoples plan?
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
What are the strategies of NHS peoples plan?
- Responding to new challenges and opportunities
- Looking after our people
- Belonging in the nhs
- New ways of working and delivering
- Growing for the future
What does the strategy responding to new challenges and opportunities involve?
- Highlighting existing and deep rooted inequalities
- Flexible and remote working
- Remote consultations
- Returning and new staff
- Shared purpose and permission to act
- Health and well being of people
- Support for care homes
