Challenges faced by NHS
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- Created on: 06-05-17 14:56
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- Challenges faced by NHS
- An Ageing Population
- As population aged demands on NHS increased because older people have more medical needs
- 1951 = 7 million people of retirement age
- 1971 = 9 million people of retirement age
- 1970s hospitals offered hip replacements and treatment designed from elderly
- 1979 NHS performed 24,000 hip replacements
- The operation was impossible in 1960s
- Challenges of Medical Advances
- 1948-60 had seen little development of hospitals and little done to tackle inequalities in provision
- 1960s and 70s govn. tried to modernise and tackle inequalities
- Increasing demand on NHS resources and new treatment possibilities
- Spending on NHS increased as rates higher than predicted in 1950s
- In 1950s National Institute of Economic and Social Research predicted NHS spending would increase 3% a year from 1960-75 but it was actually 4.5%
- Higher funding took place in weaker economic times
- 1948-60 had seen little development of hospitals and little done to tackle inequalities in provision
- Treatment and Staffing
- Increasingly high-tech medical equipment required specialist staff
- Number of consultants and nurses rose 66% 1964-79
- Number of tech staff rose by 300%
- 1951: total staff = 407,000
- 1979: total staff = 1 million
- 1960s NHS provided: kidney dialysis, catheters, organ transplants
- Required expensive technology and specialist staff
- Increasingly high-tech medical equipment required specialist staff
- An Ageing Population
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