Health Issues in Britain

Britain is a highly developed country. Compare to other countries, it has a perfect health care system. With high qualification and high professional knowledge, the health system provides people the best services. In UK, the NHS is the most famous system which operated by the government. This system provides two kinds of the health care system. The first one is the Community-based primary health care. It usually provides the general practitioner and nurse to the patient in the community. Another type is the Hospital-based specialist services, this service provide several doctors and dealing with the serious health problems.
There are a number of factors that seem to play a role in the quality of health care available around Britain.
One of the factors is the region. As we know, all the British citizens may go to see a doctor without any cost, because the National Health Service provide free health service to all the British citizens. So if you are not the local people who live in UK not more than six months, then you have to pay for the health service by yourself. Take an example, there is a limit in the NHS. The NHS medical services are only suitable for the students who attend courses in the United Kingdom for more than six months and their dependents. If you do not belong to this area, then you have to pay for the health service.
Another factor is the allocation of resources. As we know, the good quality of service was depended on the allocation of resources. Take an example, a good hospital should have a decent transport links, it can make their patients easy to access the health services. There is a good example in London, nine hospitals lack good access and it make the patients hard to access the health services (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7283867.stm).

There is another problem in UK. A survey shows that many schools do not get enough support in dealing with their students’ mental problem. People who have the mental problems need more help from the health care system. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7209166.stm)

In UK, government pays more and more attention to help people solve the health problem. Some people who need special help can put notice on the internet and search for help. Take an example. A people who called Rod are unable to live independent. The BBC put a video on the internet and asks people to help him. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/avdb/news/politics/video/156000/nb/156180_16x9_nb.asx?ad=1&ct=50).
From what we discussed, we can make a conclusion that UK has the highly developed health system and it has its own features.