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- 1. Health Financing Summit 04.14.10
- 2. The National Health Service of the United Kingdom By British Ambassador Stephen Lillie Health Financing Summit, 14 April 2010
- 7. The NHS structure Source: h ttp://www.nhs.uk/NHSEngland/thenhs/about/Pages/nhsstructure.aspx
- 9. NHS expenditure Sources: ONS, Annual Abstract of Statistics: 2008 , Table 10.22, and earlier editions; ONS database , series YBHA , ABMI and YBGB ; Health Committee, Public Expenditure on Health and Personal Social Services 2007: Memorandum received from the Department of Health containing Replies to a Written Questionnaire from the Committee , HC 26-i, 8 November 2007, Table 2
- 12. “ No society can legitimately call itself civilized if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means." -- Aneurin Bevan, architect of the NHS
- 13. Health Financing Summit 04.14.10
Notas del editor
- NHS Facts and Figures: The NHS employs more than 1.5million people, including: 90,000 hospital doctors, 35,000 general practitioners, 400,000 nurses 6,000 ambulance staff On average, the NHS treats 1m patients every 36 hours - that’s 463 people a minute or almost 8 a second. Each week, 700,000 will visit an NHS dentist, while a further 3,000 will have a heart operation. NHS waiting times in England are now at the lowest levels since NHS records began with a median wait of: o 7.7 weeks from referral to admitted patient treatment; o 4.2 weeks from referral to non-admitted patient treatment (ie not referred on for treatment in hospital). o 1.9 weeks for a diagnostic test o 98.1% of patients were seen, diagnosed and treated within four hours of their arrival at Accident & Emergency (The Emergency Room). · When the NHS was launched in 1948 it had a budget of £437million, It will increase to £105.8 billion in 2010/11. · In England, 89 per cent of drugs prescribed to patients are dispensed for free. The maximum cost of receiving any drug which is prescribed is £7.20 (approx $12).
- US UK Health Care Spending per Capita in 2004 ~ US - $6,102 16% of GDP UK - $2,546 8.3 of GDP Life expectancy in 2000* 77 78 Under 5 mortality rate (probability of dying by age 5 per 1000 live births)* 9 6 Average Annual Rate of Growth in Real Healthcare Spending per Capita, 1994 to 2004 ~ 3.7% 4.2% Number of Beds per 1,000 people in 2004 ~ 2.8 beds 3.6 beds Average Length of Stay for Acute Care in 2004 ~ 5.6 days 3.6 days Potential Years of Life Lost Due to Diseases of the Circulatory System per 100,000 Population in 2004 ~ 825 635 Potential Years of Life Lost Due to Diabetes per 100,000 Population in 2004 ~ 101 30 Potential Years of Life Lost Due to diseases of the Respiratory System in 2004 ~ 190 172 Deaths Due to Surgical or Medical Mishaps per 100,000 Population in 2004 ~ 0.7 0.5 *Figures from World Health Organisation ~ Figures from Commonwealth Fund report - Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: An International Update on the Comparative Performance of American Health Care