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Hospital death rates reduced, especially in stroke. At the same time there was an increase in wages of 24% and an increase of 10% in the number of staff and increases in the use of equipment and supplies. As a whole NHS output increased by 47% and inputs by 31%, an increase in productivity of 12.86% during the period, or 1.37% per year. [20]
This was the first time the NHS had been reorganised in the UK since it was established in 1948. [1] The next major reorganisations would be the Health Services Act 1980 and the Health Authorities Act 1995 which repealed the 1973 Act. It created a two-tier system of area health authorities (AHAs) which answered to regional health authorities ...
By the end of the 1970s, the NHS had passed 1,000,000 staff [41] and in 2015 was the world's fifth largest work organisation with 1.7m. [42] Nurses are the largest single group of professionally qualified staff in the NHS, with 306,000 employed in English hospitals and community health services as at December 2020. [43]
The Government has pledged to create a 10-year plan for the NHS to tackle its most serious problems after a damning report found it was “in trouble”.
It triggered years of debate about the relationship between the NHS, local authorities, and health and social care. [2] In September 1968, the separate ministries of health and of social care merged to form the Department of Health and Social Security. [2] In 1970, Richard Crossman rewrote Robinson's 1968 proposals, publishing a second green ...
Wes Streeting has warned the NHS could “go the way of Woolies” unless it is brought “into the 21st century” by reform. The Health Secretary said Sir Keir Starmer will set out a plan to ...
Similar health services in Northern Ireland were created by the Northern Ireland Parliament through the Health Services Act (Northern Ireland) 1948. The whole Act was replaced by the National Health Service Act 1977, [1] which itself is now superseded by the National Health Service Act 2006 and the Health and Social Care Act 2012.
The NHS is heading for another major health scandal unless care urgently improves, the government’s first patient safety commissioner has warned. ... and death,” she said. ... Dr Hughes was ...