The future of UK healthcare: problems and potential solutions to a system in crisis.
Ann Oncol
; 28(8): 1751-1755, 2017 Aug 01.
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ABSTRACT
The UK's Health System is in crisis, central funding no longer keeping pace with demand. Traditional responses-spending more, seeking efficiency savings or invoking market forces-are not solutions. The health of our nation demands urgent delivery of a radical new model, negotiated openly between public, policymakers and healthcare professionals. Such a model could focus on disease prevention, modifying health behaviour and implementing change in public policy in fields traditionally considered unrelated to health such as transport, food and advertising. The true cost-effectiveness of healthcare interventions must be balanced against the opportunity cost of their implementation, bolstering the central role of NICE in such decisions. Without such action, the prognosis for our healthcare system-and for the health of the individuals it serves-may be poor. Here, we explore such a new prescription for our national health.
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MEDLINE
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Atención a la Salud
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Prognostic_studies
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Europa
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En
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Ann Oncol
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NEOPLASIAS
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2017
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Article