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For its oversight body, see <a href="/wiki/NHS_England" title="NHS England">NHS England</a>.</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox"><caption class="infobox-title" style="font-size: 125%;">National Health Service</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><a href="/wiki/File:National_Health_Service_(England)_logo.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/National_Health_Service_%28England%29_logo.svg/220px-National_Health_Service_%28England%29_logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="89" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/National_Health_Service_%28England%29_logo.svg/330px-National_Health_Service_%28England%29_logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/National_Health_Service_%28England%29_logo.svg/440px-National_Health_Service_%28England%29_logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="371" data-file-height="150" /></a><div class="infobox-caption">Logo of the NHS in England<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #efefef">Service overview</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Formed</th><td class="infobox-data">5 July 1948; 76 years ago (1948-07-05)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Jurisdiction</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Employees</th><td class="infobox-data">1,348,584 <a href="/wiki/Full-time_equivalent" title="Full-time equivalent">FTE</a> (August 2024)<a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Annual budget</th><td class="infobox-data">£190.3 billion (2022)<a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Minister responsible</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li style="text-indent: -1em; padding-left: 1em;"><a href="/wiki/Wes_Streeting" title="Wes Streeting">Wes Streeting</a>, <a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_Health_and_Social_Care" title="Secretary of State for Health and Social Care">Secretary of State for Health and Social Care</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Parent department</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Department_of_Health_and_Social_Care" title="Department of Health and Social Care">Department of Health and Social Care</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nhs.uk/">www.nhs.uk</a> <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16251481#P856" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:NorfolkAndNorwichUniversityHospital(KatyAppleton)Aug2005.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/NorfolkAndNorwichUniversityHospital%28KatyAppleton%29Aug2005.jpg/220px-NorfolkAndNorwichUniversityHospital%28KatyAppleton%29Aug2005.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/NorfolkAndNorwichUniversityHospital%28KatyAppleton%29Aug2005.jpg/330px-NorfolkAndNorwichUniversityHospital%28KatyAppleton%29Aug2005.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/NorfolkAndNorwichUniversityHospital%28KatyAppleton%29Aug2005.jpg/440px-NorfolkAndNorwichUniversityHospital%28KatyAppleton%29Aug2005.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="426" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Norfolk_and_Norwich_University_Hospital" title="Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital">Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital</a>, which with 1237 beds is one of the largest NHS hospitals</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Queen_Elizabeth_Hospital_Birmingham,_Edgbaston,_Birmingham,_England-7March2011.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Queen_Elizabeth_Hospital_Birmingham%2C_Edgbaston%2C_Birmingham%2C_England-7March2011.jpg/220px-Queen_Elizabeth_Hospital_Birmingham%2C_Edgbaston%2C_Birmingham%2C_England-7March2011.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Queen_Elizabeth_Hospital_Birmingham%2C_Edgbaston%2C_Birmingham%2C_England-7March2011.jpg/330px-Queen_Elizabeth_Hospital_Birmingham%2C_Edgbaston%2C_Birmingham%2C_England-7March2011.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bf/Queen_Elizabeth_Hospital_Birmingham%2C_Edgbaston%2C_Birmingham%2C_England-7March2011.jpg/440px-Queen_Elizabeth_Hospital_Birmingham%2C_Edgbaston%2C_Birmingham%2C_England-7March2011.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4692" data-file-height="2652" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_Hospital_Birmingham" title="Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham">Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham</a>, another large NHS hospital in England, which has 1213 beds</figcaption></figure> The National Health Service (NHS) is the <a href="/wiki/Publicly_funded_health_care" title="Publicly funded health care">publicly funded healthcare system</a> in <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a>, and one of the four <a href="/wiki/National_Health_Service" title="National Health Service">National Health Service</a> systems in the <a href="/wiki/United_Kingdom" title="United Kingdom">United Kingdom</a>. It is the second largest <a href="/wiki/Single-payer_healthcare" title="Single-payer healthcare">single-payer healthcare</a> system in the world after the Brazilian <a href="/wiki/Sistema_%C3%9Anico_de_Sa%C3%BAde" title="Sistema Único de Saúde">Sistema Único de Saúde</a>. Primarily funded by the government from general taxation (plus a small amount from <a href="/wiki/National_Insurance" title="National Insurance">National Insurance</a> contributions), and overseen by the <a href="/wiki/Department_of_Health_and_Social_Care" title="Department of Health and Social Care">Department of Health and Social Care</a>, the NHS provides <a href="/wiki/Healthcare" class="mw-redirect" title="Healthcare">healthcare</a> to all legal English residents and residents from other regions of the UK, with most services free at the point of use for most people.<a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a> The NHS also conducts research through the <a href="/wiki/National_Institute_for_Health_and_Care_Research" title="National Institute for Health and Care Research">National Institute for Health and Care Research</a> (NIHR).<a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a> Free healthcare at the point of use comes from the core principles at the founding of the National Health Service. The 1942 Beveridge cross-party report established the principles of the NHS which was implemented by the <a href="/wiki/Attlee_ministry" title="Attlee ministry">Labour government</a> in 1948. <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour's</a> Minister for Health <a href="/wiki/Aneurin_Bevan" title="Aneurin Bevan">Aneurin Bevan</a> is popularly considered the NHS's founder,<a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a><a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a><a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a> despite never formally being referred to as such. In practice, "free at the point of use" normally means that anyone legitimately and fully registered with the system (i.e. in possession of an <a href="/wiki/NHS_number" title="NHS number">NHS number</a>), available to legal UK residents regardless of nationality (but not non-resident British citizens), can access the full breadth of critical and non-critical medical care, without payment except for some specific NHS services, for example <a href="/wiki/Eye_test" class="mw-redirect" title="Eye test">eye tests</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dentistry" title="Dentistry">dental care</a>, <a href="/wiki/Prescription_charges" title="Prescription charges">prescriptions</a> and aspects of <a href="/wiki/Long-term_care" title="Long-term care">long-term care</a>. These charges are usually lower than equivalent services provided by a private provider and many are free to vulnerable or low-income patients.<a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a><a href="#cite_note-10">[10]</a> The NHS provides the majority of healthcare in England, including <a href="/wiki/Primary_care" title="Primary care">primary care</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hospital" title="Hospital">in-patient care</a>, <a href="/wiki/Long-term_care" title="Long-term care">long-term healthcare</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ophthalmology" title="Ophthalmology">ophthalmology</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dentistry" title="Dentistry">dentistry</a>. The <a href="/wiki/National_Health_Service_Act_1946" title="National Health Service Act 1946">National Health Service Act 1946</a> was enacted on 5 July 1948. Private health care has continued parallel to the NHS, paid for largely by private insurance: it is used by about 8% of the population, generally as an add-on to NHS services. The NHS is largely funded from general taxation, with a small amount being contributed by <a href="/wiki/National_Insurance" title="National Insurance">National Insurance</a> payments<a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a> and from fees levied by recent changes in the <a href="/wiki/Immigration_Act_2014" title="Immigration Act 2014">Immigration Act 2014</a>.<a href="#cite_note-12">[12]</a> The UK government department responsible for the NHS is the <a href="/wiki/Department_of_Health_and_Social_Care" title="Department of Health and Social Care">Department of Health and Social Care</a>, headed by the <a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_Health_and_Social_Care" title="Secretary of State for Health and Social Care">Secretary of State for Health and Social Care</a>. The Department of Health and Social Care had a £110 billion budget in 2013–14, most of which was spent on the NHS. <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Health_Service_(England)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/History_of_the_National_Health_Service_(England)" title="History of the National Health Service (England)">History of the National Health Service (England)</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Aneurin_Bevan_and_his_wife_Jenny_Lee_in_Corwen_(15368872658).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Aneurin_Bevan_and_his_wife_Jenny_Lee_in_Corwen_%2815368872658%29.jpg/170px-Aneurin_Bevan_and_his_wife_Jenny_Lee_in_Corwen_%2815368872658%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="226" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Aneurin_Bevan_and_his_wife_Jenny_Lee_in_Corwen_%2815368872658%29.jpg/255px-Aneurin_Bevan_and_his_wife_Jenny_Lee_in_Corwen_%2815368872658%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Aneurin_Bevan_and_his_wife_Jenny_Lee_in_Corwen_%2815368872658%29.jpg/340px-Aneurin_Bevan_and_his_wife_Jenny_Lee_in_Corwen_%2815368872658%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1753" data-file-height="2329" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Aneurin_Bevan" title="Aneurin Bevan">Aneurin Bevan</a>. As health minister from 1945 to 1951, he spearheaded the establishment of the National Health Service</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_New_National_Health_Service_Leaflet_1948.pdf" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/The_New_National_Health_Service_Leaflet_1948.pdf/page1-170px-The_New_National_Health_Service_Leaflet_1948.pdf.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="267" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/The_New_National_Health_Service_Leaflet_1948.pdf/page1-255px-The_New_National_Health_Service_Leaflet_1948.pdf.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/The_New_National_Health_Service_Leaflet_1948.pdf/page1-340px-The_New_National_Health_Service_Leaflet_1948.pdf.jpg 2x" data-file-width="772" data-file-height="1214" /></a><figcaption>Leaflet concerning the launch of the NHS in England and Wales</figcaption></figure> <a href="/wiki/A._J._Cronin" title="A. J. Cronin">A. J. Cronin</a>'s controversial novel <a href="/wiki/The_Citadel_(novel)" title="The Citadel (novel)">The Citadel</a>, published in 1937, had fomented extensive debate about the severe inadequacies of healthcare. The author's innovative ideas were not only essential to the conception of the NHS but in fact, his best-selling novels are said to have greatly contributed to the Labour Party's victory in 1945.<a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a> A national <a href="/wiki/Health" title="Health">health</a> service was one of the fundamental assumptions in the <a href="/wiki/Beveridge_Report" title="Beveridge Report">Beveridge Report</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Emergency_Hospital_Service" title="Emergency Hospital Service">Emergency Hospital Service</a> established in 1939 gave a taste of what a National Health Service might look like.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] Healthcare before the war had been an unsatisfactory mix of private, municipal, and charity schemes. Bevan decided that the way forward was a national system rather than a system operated by local authorities. He proposed that each resident of the UK would be signed up to a specific <a href="/wiki/General_practitioner" title="General practitioner">General Practice</a> (GP) as the point of entry into the system, building on the foundations laid in 1912 by the introduction of <a href="/wiki/National_Insurance" title="National Insurance">National Insurance</a> and the list system for general practice. Patients would have access to all medical, dental, and nursing care they needed without having to pay for it at the time.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] In the 1980s, <a href="/wiki/Thatcherism" title="Thatcherism">Thatcherism</a> represented a systematic, decisive rejection and reversal of the <a href="/wiki/Post-war_consensus" title="Post-war consensus">post-war consensus</a>, wherein the major political parties largely agreed on the central themes of <a href="/wiki/Keynesianism" class="mw-redirect" title="Keynesianism">Keynesianism</a>, the welfare state, the mixed economy, supplies both of public and private housing and close regulation of the economy. There was one major exception: the National Health Service, which was widely popular and had wide support inside the Conservative Party. In 1982, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher promised Britons that the NHS is "safe in our hands."<a href="#cite_note-14">[14]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Organisation">Organisation</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Health_Service_(England)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Organisation">edit</a>]</div> The NHS was established within the differing nations of the United Kingdom through differing legislation, and as such there has never been a singular British healthcare system, instead there are 4 health services in the United Kingdom; NHS England, the <a href="/wiki/NHS_Scotland" title="NHS Scotland">NHS Scotland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Health_and_Social_Care_in_Northern_Ireland" class="mw-redirect" title="Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland">HSC Northern Ireland</a> and <a href="/wiki/NHS_Wales" title="NHS Wales">NHS Wales</a>, which were run by the respective UK government ministries for each home nation before falling under the control of devolved governments in 1999.<a href="#cite_note-15">[15]</a> In 2009, NHS England agreed to a formal <a href="/wiki/NHS_Constitution_for_England" title="NHS Constitution for England">NHS constitution</a>, which sets out the legal rights and responsibilities of the NHS, its staff, and users of the service, and makes additional non-binding pledges regarding many key aspects of its operations.<a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Health_and_Social_Care_Act_2012" title="Health and Social Care Act 2012">Health and Social Care Act 2012</a> came into effect in April 2013, giving GP-led groups responsibility for commissioning most local NHS services. Starting in April 2013, <a href="/wiki/Primary_care_trust" class="mw-redirect" title="Primary care trust">primary care trusts</a> (PCTs) began to be replaced by general practitioner (GP)-led organizations called <a href="/wiki/Clinical_commissioning_group" title="Clinical commissioning group">clinical commissioning groups</a> (CCGs). Under the new system, a new NHS Commissioning Board, called <a href="/wiki/NHS_England" title="NHS England">NHS England</a>, oversees the NHS from the <a href="/wiki/Department_of_Health_(United_Kingdom)" class="mw-redirect" title="Department of Health (United Kingdom)">Department of Health</a>.<a href="#cite_note-The_changing_NHS-17">[17]</a> The Act has also become associated with the perception of increased private provision of NHS services. In reality, the provision of NHS services by private companies long precedes this legislation, but there are concerns that the new role of the healthcare regulator ('Monitor') could lead to increased use of private-sector competition, balancing care options between private companies, charities, and NHS organizations.<a href="#cite_note-The_changing_NHS-17">[17]</a> NHS trusts responded to the <a href="/wiki/Nicholson_challenge" title="Nicholson challenge">Nicholson challenge</a>—which involved making £20 billion in savings across the service by 2015.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Core_principles">Core principles</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Health_Service_(England)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Core principles">edit</a>]</div> The principal NHS website states the following as core principles:<a href="#cite_note-18">[18]</a> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote">The NHS was born out of a long-held ideal that good healthcare should be available to all, regardless of wealth. At its launch by the then minister of health, Aneurin Bevan, on 5 July 1948, it had at its heart three core principles: <ul><li>That it meets the needs of everyone</li> <li>That it is free at the point of delivery</li> <li>That it is based on clinical need, not the ability to pay</li></ul> These three principles have guided the development of the NHS for more than half a century and remain. However, in July 2000, a full-scale modernization program was launched and new principles were added.</blockquote> The main aims of the additional principles are that the NHS will: <ul><li>Provide a comprehensive range of services</li> <li>Shape its services around the needs and preferences of individual patients, their families, and their carers</li> <li>Respond to the different needs of different populations</li> <li>Work continuously to improve the quality of services and to minimize errors</li> <li>Support and value its staff</li> <li>Use public funds for healthcare devoted solely to NHS patients</li> <li>Work with others to ensure a seamless service for patients</li> <li>Help to keep people healthy and work to reduce health inequalities</li> <li>Respect the confidentiality of individual patients and provide open access to information about services, treatment, and performance</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Structure">Structure</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Health_Service_(England)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Structure">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Health_and_Social_Care_Act_2012" title="Health and Social Care Act 2012">Health and Social Care Act 2012</a></div> The English NHS is controlled by the UK government through the <a href="/wiki/Department_of_Health_and_Social_Care" title="Department of Health and Social Care">Department of Health and Social Care</a> (DHSC), which takes political responsibility for the service. Resource allocation and oversight was delegated to <a href="/wiki/NHS_England" title="NHS England">NHS England</a>, an arms-length body, by the <a href="/wiki/Health_and_Social_Care_Act_2012" title="Health and Social Care Act 2012">Health and Social Care Act 2012</a>. NHS England commissions primary care services (including <a href="/wiki/General_practitioner" title="General practitioner">GPs</a>) and some specialist services, and allocates funding to 211<a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a> geographically based <a href="/wiki/Clinical_commissioning_group" title="Clinical commissioning group">clinical commissioning groups</a> (CCGs) across England. The CCGs commission most services in their areas, including hospital and community-based healthcare.<a href="#cite_note-20">[20]</a> Several types of organizations are commissioned to provide NHS services, including NHS trusts and private sector companies. Many NHS trusts have become <a href="/wiki/NHS_foundation_trust" title="NHS foundation trust">NHS foundation trusts</a>, giving them an independent legal status and greater financial freedoms. The following types of NHS trusts and foundation trusts provide NHS services in specific areas:<a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hospital_trust" class="mw-redirect" title="Hospital trust">acute trusts</a> administer hospitals, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Treatment_center&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Treatment center (page does not exist)">treatment centers</a> and specialist care in around 1,600 NHS hospitals (some trusts run between 2 and 8 different hospital sites)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ambulance_services_trust" class="mw-redirect" title="Ambulance services trust">ambulance services trusts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Care_trust" class="mw-redirect" title="Care trust">Care trusts</a>, providing both health and social care services</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mental_health_trust" title="Mental health trust">mental health trusts</a>, specialising in managing and treating <a href="/wiki/Mental_illness" class="mw-redirect" title="Mental illness">mental illness</a>, including by the use of <a href="/wiki/Involuntary_commitment" title="Involuntary commitment">involuntary commitment</a> powers</li></ul> Some services are provided at a national level, including:[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <ul><li>www.nhs.uk is the primary public-facing NHS website, providing comprehensive official information on services, treatments, conditions, healthy living and current health topics</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Special_health_authority" title="Special health authority">Special health authorities</a> provide various types of services</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Staffing">Staffing</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Health_Service_(England)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Staffing">edit</a>]</div> In the year ending in March 2017, there were 1.187 million staff in England's NHS, 1.9% more than in March 2016.<a href="#cite_note-22">[22]</a> There were 34,260 unfilled nursing and midwifery posts in England by September 2017, this was the highest level since records began.<a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a> 23% of women giving birth were left alone part of the time causing anxiety to the women and possible danger to them and their babies. This is because there are too few midwives.<a href="#cite_note-24">[24]</a> Neonatal mortality rose from 2.6 deaths for every 1,000 births in 2015 to 2.7 deaths per 1,000 births in 2016. Infant mortality (deaths during the first year of life) rose from 3.7 to 3.8 per 1,000 live births during the same period.<a href="#cite_note-25">[25]</a> Assaults on NHS staff have increased, there were 56,435 recorded physical assaults on staff in 2016–2017, 9.7% more than the 51,447 the year before. Low staffing levels and delays in patients being treated are blamed for this.<a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a> Nearly all hospital doctors and nurses in England are employed by the NHS and work in NHS-run hospitals, with teams of more junior hospital doctors (most of whom are in training) being led by <a href="/wiki/Consultant" title="Consultant">consultants</a>, each of whom is trained to provide expert advice and treatment within a specific specialty. From 2017, NHS doctors must reveal how much money they make from private practice.<a href="#cite_note-27">[27]</a> <a href="/wiki/General_practitioner" title="General practitioner">General practitioners</a>, dentists, optometrists (opticians), and other providers of local health care are almost all self-employed and contract their services back to the NHS. They may operate in partnership with other professionals, own and operate their surgeries and clinics, and employ their staff, including other doctors, etc. However, the NHS does sometimes provide centrally employed healthcare professionals and facilities in areas where there is insufficient provision by self-employed professionals. <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Nhs_england_staff.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Nhs_england_staff.png/440px-Nhs_england_staff.png" decoding="async" width="440" height="230" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Nhs_england_staff.png/660px-Nhs_england_staff.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Nhs_england_staff.png/880px-Nhs_england_staff.png 2x" data-file-width="976" data-file-height="510" /></a><figcaption>Staff in NHS England from 2010 - 2017.<a href="#cite_note-NHSheadcountstats-28">[28]</a></figcaption></figure> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Year<a href="#cite_note-29">[29]</a></th> <th>Nurses</th> <th>Doctors</th> <th>Other qualified<a href="#cite_note-30">[30]</a></th> <th>Managers</th> <th>Total </th></tr> <tr> <td>1978</td> <td>339,658</td> <td>55,000</td> <td>26,000</td> <td>-</td> <td>1,003,000<a href="#cite_note-31">[31]</a> (UK) </td></tr> <tr> <td>2010</td> <td>318,935</td> <td>102,422</td> <td>180,621</td> <td>40,025</td> <td>1,168,750<a href="#cite_note-NHSheadcountstats-28">[28]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2011</td> <td>317,157</td> <td>103,898</td> <td>184,869</td> <td>35,014</td> <td>1,158,920<a href="#cite_note-NHSheadcountstats-28">[28]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2012</td> <td>310,359</td> <td>105,019</td> <td>183,818</td> <td>33,023</td> <td>1,128,140<a href="#cite_note-NHSheadcountstats-28">[28]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2013</td> <td>308,782</td> <td>106,151</td> <td>184,571</td> <td>32,429</td> <td>1,123,529<a href="#cite_note-NHSheadcountstats-28">[28]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2014</td> <td>314,097</td> <td>107,896</td> <td>187,699</td> <td>28,499</td> <td>1,126,947<a href="#cite_note-NHSheadcountstats-28">[28]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2015</td> <td>316,117</td> <td>109,890</td> <td>189,321</td> <td>30,221</td> <td>1,143,102<a href="#cite_note-NHSheadcountstats-28">[28]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2016</td> <td>318,912</td> <td>110,732</td> <td>193,073</td> <td>31,523</td> <td>1,164,471<a href="#cite_note-NHSheadcountstats-28">[28]</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2017</td> <td>319,845</td> <td>113,508</td> <td>198,783</td> <td>32,588</td> <td>1,187,125<a href="#cite_note-NHSheadcountstats-28">[28]</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> Note that due to methodological changes, the 1978 figure is not directly comparable with later figures. A 2012 analysis by the BBC estimated that the NHS across the whole UK has 1.7 million staff, which made it fifth on the list of the world's largest employers (well above Indian Railways).<a href="#cite_note-32">[32]</a> In 2015 the <a href="/wiki/Health_Service_Journal" title="Health Service Journal">Health Service Journal</a> reported that there were 587,647 non-clinical staff in the English NHS. 17% worked supporting clinical staff. 2% in cleaning and 14% administrative. 16,211 were finance staff.<a href="#cite_note-Health_Service_Journal-33">[33]</a> The NHS plays a unique role in the training of new doctors in England, with approximately 8,000 places for student doctors each year, all of which are attached to an NHS University Hospital trust. After completing medical school, these new doctors must go on to complete a two-year foundation training program to become fully registered with the <a href="/wiki/General_Medical_Council" title="General Medical Council">General Medical Council</a>. Most go on to complete their foundation training years in an NHS hospital although some may opt for alternative employers such as the armed forces.<a href="#cite_note-statistics-34">[34]</a> Most NHS staff, including non-clinical staff and GPs (although most GPs are self-employed), are eligible to join the <a href="/wiki/NHS_Pension_Scheme" title="NHS Pension Scheme">NHS Pension Scheme</a>—which, from 1 April 2015, is an average-salary <a href="/wiki/Pension#Defined_benefit_plans" title="Pension">defined-benefit</a> scheme. Among the current challenges with recruiting staff are pay, work pressure,<a href="#cite_note-35">[35]</a><a href="#cite_note-36">[36]</a><a href="#cite_note-37">[37]</a> and difficulty recruiting and retaining staff from EU countries due to <a href="/wiki/Brexit" title="Brexit">Brexit</a>.<a href="#cite_note-38">[38]</a> and there are fears that doctors could also leave.<a href="#cite_note-Guardian20/5/2017-39">[39]</a><a href="#cite_note-40">[40]</a> In March 2021, the <a href="/wiki/Department_of_Health_and_Social_Care" title="Department of Health and Social Care">Department of Health and Social Care</a> made a non-binding recommendation that NHS staff in <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a> should receive a 1% pay rise for 2021–2022, citing the 'uncertain' financial situation and the current low inflation.<a href="#cite_note-41">[41]</a><a href="#cite_note-:1-42">[42]</a> This is estimated to cost £500 million a year, as almost half of the NHS's budget goes on staffing costs (at £56.1 billion).<a href="#cite_note-:1-42">[42]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Trades_Union_Congress" title="Trades Union Congress">Trades Union Congress</a> estimated that nurses' pay would be £2,500 less than in 2010, paramedics' pay would be £3,330 less and porters' pay would be £850 less due to <a href="/wiki/Inflation" title="Inflation">inflation</a>.<a href="#cite_note-:2-43">[43]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Royal_College_of_Nursing" title="Royal College of Nursing">Royal College of Nursing</a> has criticized the pay rise, calling it 'pitiful' and said that nurses should be getting 12.5% more; it has also agreed to set up a £35m fund to support members in the event of a strike.<a href="#cite_note-:2-43">[43]</a><a href="#cite_note-:3-44">[44]</a> Other unions have threatened <a href="/wiki/Strike_action" title="Strike action">strike actions</a> and warned that the proposal could lead to staff quitting their jobs, worsening staffing issues.<a href="#cite_note-:3-44">[44]</a><a href="#cite_note-45">[45]</a><a href="#cite_note-:4-46">[46]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour Party</a> similarly criticized the proposal as 'reprehensible' and claimed that it goes against a government 'promise' made in 2020 to give NHS workers a 2.1% pay rise, which was voted for in a long-term spending plan in January 2020 but the <a href="/wiki/Department_of_Health_and_Social_Care" title="Department of Health and Social Care">Department of Health</a> considered to be not legally binding.<a href="#cite_note-:3-44">[44]</a><a href="#cite_note-:4-46">[46]</a><a href="#cite_note-:5-47">[47]</a> <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Prime Minister of the United Kingdom">Prime Minister</a> <a href="/wiki/Boris_Johnson" title="Boris Johnson">Boris Johnson</a> defended the 1% pay rise, stating that the government was giving workers "as much as we can" in light of the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom">COVID-19 pandemic</a> and that he was "massively grateful" to the health and social care workers.<a href="#cite_note-:4-46">[46]</a> <a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_Health_and_Social_Care" title="Secretary of State for Health and Social Care">Secretary of State for Health and Social Care</a> <a href="/wiki/Matt_Hancock" title="Matt Hancock">Matt Hancock</a> and <a href="/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_Education" title="Secretary of State for Education">Secretary of State for Education</a> <a href="/wiki/Gavin_Williamson" title="Gavin Williamson">Gavin Williamson</a> similarly argued that the decision was due to an assessment of what was affordable due to the pandemic and that NHS staff was excluded from a wider public sector pay freeze.<a href="#cite_note-:5-47">[47]</a><a href="#cite_note-:2-43">[43]</a> <a href="/wiki/Shadow_Secretary_of_State_for_Health_and_Social_Care" title="Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care">Shadow Secretary of State for Health and Social Care</a> <a href="/wiki/Jon_Ashworth" class="mw-redirect" title="Jon Ashworth">Jon Ashworth</a> clarified that <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> would "honour whatever the review body recommends".<a href="#cite_note-:4-46">[46]</a> At the end of 2021, there were 99,000 vacancies in the English NHS. 39,000 more nurses were needed, together with 1,400 more anesthetists, 1,900 more radiologists, and 2,500 more GPs.<a href="#cite_note-48">[48]</a> Miriam Deakin of <a href="/wiki/NHS_Providers" title="NHS Providers">NHS Providers</a> stated there were 133,000 NHS vacancies in late 2022.<a href="#cite_note-guardian10/12/2022-49">[49]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2012_reforms">2012 reforms</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Health_Service_(England)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 2012 reforms">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Health_and_Social_Care_Act_2012" title="Health and Social Care Act 2012">Health and Social Care Act 2012</a></div> The <a href="/wiki/Cameron%E2%80%93Clegg_coalition" title="Cameron–Clegg coalition">coalition government's</a> <a href="/wiki/White_paper" title="White paper">white paper</a> on health reform, published in July 2010, set out a significant reorganization of the NHS. The white paper, Equity and excellence: liberating the NHS,<a href="#cite_note-50">[50]</a> with implications for all health organizations in the NHS abolishing <a href="/wiki/Primary_care_trust" class="mw-redirect" title="Primary care trust">primary care trusts</a> and <a href="/wiki/Strategic_health_authority" title="Strategic health authority">strategic health authorities</a>. It claimed to shift power from the center to GPs and patients, moving somewhere between £60 and £80 billion into the hands of <a href="/wiki/Clinical_commissioning_group" title="Clinical commissioning group">clinical commissioning group</a> to commission services. The bill became law in March 2012 with a government majority of 88 and following more than 1,000 amendments in the House of Commons and the House of Lords.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Funding">Funding</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Health_Service_(England)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Funding">edit</a>]</div> The total budget of the Department of Health in England in 2017/18 was £124.7 billion.<a href="#cite_note-kingsfund-51">[51]</a> £13.8 billion was spent on medicines.<a href="#cite_note-52">[52]</a> The <a href="/wiki/National_Audit_Office_(United_Kingdom)" title="National Audit Office (United Kingdom)">National Audit Office</a> reports annually on the summarised consolidated accounts of the NHS.<a href="#cite_note-53">[53]</a> The population of England is aging, which has led to an increase in health demand and funding. From 2011 to 2018, the population of England increased by about 6%. The number of patients admitted to hospital in an emergency went up by 15%.<a href="#cite_note-54">[54]</a>  There were 542,435 emergency hospital admissions in England in October 2018, 5.8% more than in October 2017.<a href="#cite_note-55">[55]</a> Health spending in England is expected to rise from £112 billion in 2009/10 to £127 billion in 2019/20 (in real terms),<a href="#cite_note-kingsfund-51">[51]</a> and spending per head will increase by 3.5%.<a href="#cite_note-IFS-56">[56]</a> However, according to the <a href="/wiki/Institute_for_Fiscal_Studies" title="Institute for Fiscal Studies">Institute for Fiscal Studies</a> (IFS), compared to the increase necessary to keep up with a rising population that is also ageing, spending will fall by 1.3% from 2009–10 to 2019–20.<a href="#cite_note-Guardian3/5/2017-57">[57]</a><a href="#cite_note-IFS-56">[56]</a> George Stoye, senior research economist of the IFS, and said the annual increases since 2009-10 were "the lowest rate of increase over any similar period since the mid-1950s, since when the long-run annual growth rate has been 4.1%".<a href="#cite_note-Guardian3/5/2017-57">[57]</a> This has led to cuts to some services, despite the overall increase in funding.<a href="#cite_note-58">[58]</a> In 2017, funding increased by 1.3% while demand rose by 5%.<a href="#cite_note-59">[59]</a> Ted Baker, Chief Inspector of Hospitals has said that the NHS is still running the model it had in the 1960s and 1970s and has not modernised due to lack of investment.<a href="#cite_note-60">[60]</a> The <a href="/wiki/British_Medical_Association" title="British Medical Association">British Medical Association</a> (BMA) has called for £10bn more annually for the NHS to get in line with what other advanced European nations spend on health.<a href="#cite_note-61">[61]</a> In June 2018 ahead of the NHS' 70th Anniversary then Prime Minister <a href="/wiki/Theresa_May" title="Theresa May">Theresa May</a> announced extra funding for the NHS worth an average real terms increase of 3.4% a year, reaching £20.5 billion extra in 2023/24.<a href="#cite_note-62">[62]</a> <a href="/wiki/Jeremy_Hunt" title="Jeremy Hunt">Jeremy Hunt</a> describes the process of setting the NHS budget as far too random - "decided on the back of headlines, elections and anniversaries rather than on rational calculations of demand and cost."<a href="#cite_note-63">[63]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="The_commissioning_system">The commissioning system</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Health_Service_(England)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: The commissioning system">edit</a>]</div> From 2003 to 2013 the principal fundholders in the NHS system were the <a href="/wiki/Primary_care_trust" class="mw-redirect" title="Primary care trust">primary care trusts</a> (PCTs), which commissioned healthcare from <a href="/wiki/NHS_trusts" class="mw-redirect" title="NHS trusts">NHS trusts</a>, GPs, and private providers. PCTs disbursed funds to them on an agreed tariff or contract basis, on guidelines set out by the Department of Health. The PCTs budget from the Department of Health was calculated on a formula basis relating to population and specific local needs. They were supposed to "break-even" – that is, not show a deficit on their budgets at the end of the financial year. Failure to meet financial objectives could result in the dismissal and replacement of a trust's board of directors, although such dismissals are enormously expensive for the NHS.<a href="#cite_note-64">[64]</a> In April 2013 a new system was established as a result of the <a href="/wiki/Health_and_Social_Care_Act_2012" title="Health and Social Care Act 2012">Health and Social Care Act 2012</a>. The NHS budget is largely in the hands of a new body, NHS England. NHS England commissions specialist services and primary care. Acute services and community care are commissioned by local <a href="/wiki/Clinical_commissioning_group" title="Clinical commissioning group">clinical commissioning groups</a> (CCGs) led by GPs. From April 2021 all CCGs have become part of Integrated Care Systems.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Free_services_and_contributory_services">Free services and contributory services</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Health_Service_(England)&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Free services and contributory services">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Services_free_at_the_point_of_use">Services free at the point of use</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Health_Service_(England)&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Services free at the point of use">edit</a>]</div> The vast majority of NHS services are free at the point of use.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] This means that people generally do not pay anything for their doctor visits, nursing services, surgical procedures or appliances, consumables such as medications and bandages, plasters, medical tests, and investigations, x-rays, CT or MRI scans, or other diagnostic services. Hospital inpatient and outpatient services are free, both medical and mental health services. Funding for these services is provided through general taxation and not a specific tax.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] Because the NHS is not funded by a contributory insurance scheme in the ordinary sense and most patients pay nothing for their treatment there is thus no billing to the treated person nor any insurer or sickness fund as is common in many other countries. This saves hugely on administration costs that might otherwise involve complex consumable tracking and usage procedures at the patient level and concomitant invoicing, reconciliation, and bad debt processing. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Eligibility">Eligibility</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Health_Service_(England)&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Eligibility">edit</a>]</div> Eligibility for NHS services is based on having <a href="/wiki/Ordinary_resident_status" class="mw-redirect" title="Ordinary resident status">ordinary resident status</a>, regardless of nationality. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Prescription_charges">Prescription charges</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Health_Service_(England)&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Prescription charges">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Prescription_charges" title="Prescription charges">Prescription charges</a></div> Prescriptions for medication in England and Wales are subject to a fixed charge per item for up to three months' supply, regardless of the actual cost of the medicine. Some people qualify for free prescriptions. Higher charges apply to medical appliances. Pharmacies or other dispensing contractors are reimbursed for the actual cost of the medicines through NHS Prescription Services, a division of the NHS Business Services Authority.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] As of March 2023<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=National_Health_Service_(England)&action=edit">[update]</a> the NHS prescription charge in England was £9.35 per item<a href="#cite_note-65">[65]</a> (in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland<a href="#cite_note-66">[66]</a> there is no charge for items prescribed on the NHS). People over sixty, children under sixteen (or under nineteen if in full-time education), patients with certain medical conditions, and those with low incomes, are exempt from charges, subject to penalties for claiming exemption when not entitled. Those who require repeated prescriptions may purchase a single-charge pre-payment certificate that allows unlimited prescriptions during its period of validity. The high and rising costs of some medicines, especially some types of cancer treatment, means that prescriptions can present a heavy burden to the <a href="/wiki/Primary_care_trust" class="mw-redirect" title="Primary care trust">primary care trusts</a>, whose limited budgets include responsibility for the difference between medicine costs and the low, fixed prescription charge. This has led to disputes whether some expensive drugs (e.g., <a href="/wiki/Herceptin" class="mw-redirect" title="Herceptin">Herceptin</a>) should be prescribed by the NHS.<a href="#cite_note-67">[67]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="NHS_dentistry">NHS dentistry</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Health_Service_(England)&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: NHS dentistry">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/NHS_dentistry" title="NHS dentistry">NHS dentistry</a></div>The position of dentistry within the NHS has been contested frequently. At the inception of the NHS, three branches of dental service were established: local health authority dental service; general practitioner service; and hospital dental service.<a href="#cite_note-68">[68]</a> Dental treatment was initially free at the point of use; however charges were introduced in 1951 for dentures – leading to the resignation of the architect of the NHS and Minister for Labour, Aneurin Bevan in March 1951 <a href="#cite_note-69">[69]</a> – and in 1952 for other treatments.<a href="#cite_note-70">[70]</a> Dentists are private contractors to the NHS, which means practitioners must purchase and maintain the practice premises, equip the surgery, and hire staff to provide an NHS dental service. The contract between the NHS and dentists determines what work is provided for under the NHS, payments to dentists, and charges to patients. The contract is regularly revised – in 2003, the Government announced major changes to NHS dentistry, giving <a href="/wiki/Primary_care_trust" class="mw-redirect" title="Primary care trust">primary care trusts</a> (PCTs) responsibility for commissioning NHS dental services in response to local needs, and using NHS contracts to influence where dental practices were located, and in 2006 a new contract was introduced following Department of Health recommendations on how to cash limit NHS primary care dentistry.<a href="#cite_note-71">[71]</a> Professional bodies such as the <a href="/wiki/British_Dental_Association" title="British Dental Association">British Dental Association</a> have complained that the 2006 contract changes introduced a remuneration system which fails to incentivize disease prevention, leading to declining patient outcomes and that radical reform was needed.<a href="#cite_note-72">[72]</a> NHS dentistry charges as of April 2017<a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=National_Health_Service_(England)&action=edit">[update]</a> were: £20.60 for an examination; £56.30 for a filling or extraction; and £244.30 for more complex procedures such as crowns, dentures, or bridges.<a href="#cite_note-73">[73]</a> As of 2007, less than half of dentists' income came from treating patients under NHS coverage; about 52% of dentists' income was from treating private patients.<a href="#cite_note-74">[74]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="NHS_Optical_Services">NHS Optical Services</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Health_Service_(England)&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: NHS Optical Services">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Eye_care_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Eye care in the United Kingdom">Eye care in the United Kingdom</a></div> From 1 April 2024, the NHS Sight Test Fee (in England) was £23.53,<a href="#cite_note-75">[75]</a> and there were 13.1 million NHS sight tests carried out in the UK.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] For those who qualify through need, the sight test is free, and a voucher system is employed to pay for or reduce the cost of lenses.<a href="#cite_note-76">[76]</a> There is a free spectacles frame and most opticians keep a selection of low-cost items. For those who already receive certain means-tested benefits, or who otherwise qualify, participating opticians use tables to find the amount of the subsidy.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Injury_cost_recovery_scheme">Injury cost recovery scheme</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Health_Service_(England)&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Injury cost recovery scheme">edit</a>]</div> Under older legislation (mainly the <a href="/wiki/Road_Traffic_Act_1930" title="Road Traffic Act 1930">Road Traffic Act 1930</a>) a hospital treating the victims of a road traffic accident was entitled to limited compensation (under the 1930 Act before any amendment, up to £25 per person treated) from the insurers of driver(s) of the vehicle(s) involved, but were not compelled to do so and often did not do so; the charge was in turn covered by the then legally required element of those drivers' motor vehicle insurance (commonly known as Road Traffic Act insurance when a driver held only that amount of insurance). As the initial bill went to the driver rather than the insurer, even when a charge was imposed it was often not passed on to the liable insurer. It was common to take no further action in such cases, as there was no practical financial incentive (and often a financial disincentive due to potential legal costs) for individual hospitals to do so.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] The Road Traffic (NHS Charges) Act 1999 introduced a standard national scheme for recovery of costs using a tariff based on a single charge for out-patient treatment or a daily charge for in-patient treatment; these charges again ultimately fell upon insurers. This scheme did not however fully cover the costs of treatment in serious cases.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] Since January 2007, the NHS must claim back the cost of treatment, and ambulance services, for those who have been paid personal injury compensation.<a href="#cite_note-77">[77]</a> In the last year of the scheme immediately preceding 2007, over £128 million was reclaimed.<a href="#cite_note-78">[78]</a> From April 2019 £725 is payable for outpatient treatment, £891 per day for inpatient treatment and £219 per ambulance journey.<a href="#cite_note-79">[79]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Car_park_charges">Car park charges</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Health_Service_(England)&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Car park charges">edit</a>]</div> Car parking charges are a minor source of revenue for the NHS,<a href="#cite_note-bbc_20080303-80">[80]</a> with most hospitals deriving about 0.25% of their budget from them.<a href="#cite_note-t_20060718-81">[81]</a> The level of fees is controlled individually by each trust.<a href="#cite_note-bbc_20080303-80">[80]</a> In 2006 car park fees contributed £78 million towards hospital budgets.<a href="#cite_note-bbc_20080303-80">[80]</a><a href="#cite_note-t_20060718-81">[81]</a> Patient groups are opposed to such charges.<a href="#cite_note-bbc_20080303-80">[80]</a> This contrasts with Scotland where car park charges were mostly scrapped from the beginning of 2009<a href="#cite_note-82">[82]</a> and with Wales where car park charges were scrapped at the end of 2011.<a href="#cite_note-t_20080303-83">[83]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Charitable_funds">Charitable funds</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Health_Service_(England)&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Charitable funds">edit</a>]</div> There are over 300 official NHS charities in England and Wales. Collectively, they hold assets over £2 billion and have an annual income of over £300 million.<a href="#cite_note-84">[84]</a> Some NHS charities have their independent board of trustees whilst in other cases the relevant NHS trust acts as a corporate trustee. Charitable funds are typically used for medical research, larger items of medical equipment, aesthetic and environmental improvements, or services that increase patient comfort.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] In addition to official NHS charities, many other charities raise funds that are spent through the NHS, particularly in connection with medical research and capital appeals.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] Regional <a href="/wiki/Lottery" title="Lottery">lotteries</a> were also common for fundraising, and in 1988, a <a href="/wiki/National_Health_Service_Lottery" title="National Health Service Lottery">National Health Service Lottery</a> was approved by the government before being found illegal. The idea continued to become the <a href="/wiki/National_Lottery_(United_Kingdom)" title="National Lottery (United Kingdom)">National Lottery</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Currie-85">[85]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Outsourcing_and_privatisation">Outsourcing and privatisation</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Health_Service_(England)&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Outsourcing and privatisation">edit</a>]</div> Although the NHS routinely <a href="/wiki/Outsourcing" title="Outsourcing">outsources</a> the equipment and products that it uses and dentistry, eye care, pharmacy, and most GP practices are provided by the private sector, the outsourcing of hospital health care has always been controversial.<a href="#cite_note-TKF_20150319-86">[86]</a> The involvement of private companies regularly draws the suspicion of NHS staff,<a href="#cite_note-87">[87]</a> the media and the public.<a href="#cite_note-BMA_2007_survey-88">[88]</a><a href="#cite_note-89">[89]</a> Outsourcing and privatization have increased in recent years, with NHS spending on the private sector rising from £4.1 billion in 2009–10 to £8.7 billion in 2015–16.<a href="#cite_note-90">[90]</a> The <a href="/wiki/King%27s_Fund" title="King's Fund">King's Fund</a>'s January 2015 report on the Coalition Government's 2012 reforms concluded that while marketization had increased, claims of mass privatization were exaggerated.<a href="#cite_note-91">[91]</a> Private firms provide services in areas such as community service, general practice and mental health care. An article in <a href="/wiki/The_Independent" title="The Independent">The Independent</a> suggested that the private sector tends to choose to deliver the services that are the most profitable, additionally, because the private sector does not have intensive care facilities if things go wrong.<a href="#cite_note-92">[92]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sustainability_and_transformation_plans">Sustainability and transformation plans</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Health_Service_(England)&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Sustainability and transformation plans">edit</a>]</div> <a href="/wiki/Sustainability_and_transformation_plan" title="Sustainability and transformation plan">Sustainability and transformation plans</a> were produced in 2016 as a method of dealing with the service's financial problems. These plans appear to involve loss of services and are highly controversial. The plans are possibly the most far-reaching change to health services for decades and the plans should contribute to redesigning care to manage increased patient demand. Some A&E units will close, concentrating hospital care in fewer places.<a href="#cite_note-BBC17/11/2016-93">[93]</a> Nearly two-thirds of senior doctors fear the plans will worsen patient care.<a href="#cite_note-94">[94]</a> Consultation will start over cost saving, streamlining, and some service reduction in the National Health Service. The streamlining will lead to ward closures including <a href="/wiki/Psychiatric_ward" class="mw-redirect" title="Psychiatric ward">psychiatric ward</a> closures and a reduction in the number of beds in many areas among other changes. There is concern that hospital beds are being closed without increased community provision.<a href="#cite_note-95">[95]</a> Sally Gainsbury of the <a href="/wiki/Nuffield_Trust" title="Nuffield Trust">Nuffield Trust</a> <a href="/wiki/Think_tank" title="Think tank">think tank</a> said many current transformation plans involve shifting or closing services. Gainsbury added, "Our research finds that, in a lot of these kinds of reconfigurations, you don't save very much money – all that happens is the patient has to go to the next hospital down the road. They're more inconvenienced... but it rarely saves the money that's needed."<a href="#cite_note-96">[96]</a> By contrast, NHS England claims that the plans bring joined-up care closer to home. Senior Liberal Democrat MP <a href="/wiki/Norman_Lamb" title="Norman Lamb">Norman Lamb</a> accepted that the review made sense in principle but stated: "It would be scandalous if the government simply hoped to use these plans as an excuse to cut services and starve the NHS of the funding it desperately needs. While the NHS must become more efficient and sustainable for future generations, redesigning of care models will only get us so far – and no experts believe the Conservative doctrine that an extra £8bn funding by 2020 will be anywhere near enough."<a href="#cite_note-97">[97]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Whistleblowing">Whistleblowing</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Health_Service_(England)&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Whistleblowing">edit</a>]</div> In an independent review in 2016 by <a href="/wiki/Robert_Francis_(barrister)" title="Robert Francis (barrister)">Robert Francis</a>, it was concluded that some staff in England felt unable or unwilling to <a href="/wiki/Whistleblower" class="mw-redirect" title="Whistleblower">raise concerns about standards</a> of care due to fear or low expectations, and that some staff who raised concerns had bad experiences and suffered unjustifiable consequences which the report described as "shocking".<a href="#cite_note-free-98">[98]</a>: 86  There is a culture of bullying towards those who raise concerns.<a href="#cite_note-free-98">[98]</a>: 87  This response may consist of placing the whistleblower on performance review, providing no assistance to them, starting a review process that can take months or years, possibly leading to mental health problems, and bullying and victimization by other staff.<a href="#cite_note-free-98">[98]</a>: 56  This process rarely ended with being redeployed in an organization, instead resulting in retirement, dismissal, or alternative employment.<a href="#cite_note-free-98">[98]</a>: 63  An issue identified by the report was the use of "gagging clauses" involved in settlements surrounding the termination of employment of those who whistleblow. While the report found that all the contracts were legal, it noted that the language used was often complicated and legalistic, a culture of fear deterred public interest disclosures even when they were not in breach of contract, and that the terms were often unnecessarily restrictive, for example by making the existence of the agreement confidential.<a href="#cite_note-free-98">[98]</a>: 187  Surgeon Peter Duffy wrote about his experiences of whistleblowing following an avoidable death in an independently published book, Whistle In the Wind.<a href="#cite_note-99">[99]</a> In research from BMA, 81% of respondents (NHS workers) believed they were only partly or not at all protected during the third wave.<a href="#cite_note-Limb_o1284-100">[100]</a> BMA also stated that the British government was unprepared for the Covid-19 outbreak and that the underfunding of the NHS left the UK 'Brutally exposed' with 'too few staff and too few beds'.<a href="#cite_note-101">[101]</a> One Doctor even claimed, regarding masks '"We made our own and bought our own when we could find any—we depended on friends sourcing FFP3 masks, my son's school 3D printing visors,".<a href="#cite_note-Limb_o1284-100">[100]</a> This research revealed that during the COVID-19 pandemic, NHS employees believed the government had treated them unjustly. The report they released was also believed to be the first of its kind to be ever done where researchers go to the doctors themselves regarding policy-making during the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</a>.<a href="#cite_note-102">[102]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="NHS_policies_and_programmes">NHS policies and programmes</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Health_Service_(England)&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: NHS policies and programmes">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Changes_under_the_Thatcher_government">Changes under the Thatcher government</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Health_Service_(England)&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Changes under the Thatcher government">edit</a>]</div> The 1980s saw the introduction of modern management processes (General Management) in the NHS to replace the previous system of consensus management. This was outlined in the Griffiths Report of 1983.<a href="#cite_note-103">[103]</a> This recommended the appointment of general managers in the NHS with whom responsibility should lie. The report also recommended that clinicians be better involved in management. Financial pressures continued to place strain on the NHS. In 1987, an additional £101 million was provided by the government to the NHS. In 1988 <a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister" class="mw-redirect" title="Prime Minister">Prime Minister</a> <a href="/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher" title="Margaret Thatcher">Margaret Thatcher</a> announced a review of the NHS. From this review in 1989 two <a href="/wiki/White_paper" title="White paper">white papers</a> Working for Patients and Caring for People were produced. These outlined the introduction of what was termed the internal market, which was to shape the structure and organization of health services for most of the next decade.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] In England, the <a href="/wiki/National_Health_Service_and_Community_Care_Act_1990" title="National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990">National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990</a> defined this "internal market", whereby health authorities ceased to run hospitals but "purchased" care from their own or other authorities' hospitals. Certain GPs became "fund holders" and were able to purchase care for their patients. The "providers" became <a href="/wiki/NHS_trust" title="NHS trust">independent trusts</a>, which encouraged competition but also increased <a href="/wiki/Postcode_lottery" title="Postcode lottery">local differences</a>. Increasing competition may have been statistically associated with poor patient outcomes.<a href="#cite_note-104">[104]</a> Along with the push to privatize the delivery of NHS services came. a growing interest in private medical care and private insurance with which to pay for it. Three companies, the British Union Provident Association (BUPA, 76.4%), Private Patient's Plan (PPP, 19.7%), and Western Provident Association (WPA, 0.9%) captured nearly the entire market in the early 1980s, a situation which would continue into the early 1990s.<a href="#cite_note-105">[105]</a> <a href="#cite_note-106">[106]</a> <a href="#cite_note-107">[107]</a> The early players became advocates for political changes to encourage switching to private healthcare, such as tax deductions for private health insurance premiums.<a href="#cite_note-108">[108]</a> At times they were also critical of what they saw as overcharging of private patients by UK hospitals.<a href="#cite_note-109">[109]</a> Around 2007 companies launched insurance plans which provided a health "top-up" cover meant to supplement NHS treatment, including reimbursement for cancer drugs which the NHS had not approved for use.<a href="#cite_note-110">[110]</a> This led to criticism, among other things, that the products would undermine the values of the NHS and risk creating a two-tier system in health care.<a href="#cite_note-Insurance_firms_eye_top-up_market-111">[111]</a> The NHS at times resisted this change, for its part, attempted to block these developments, levying "top-up fees" on NHS services where patients also received private health care. WPA claimed to have received legal advice saying such payments were unlawful.<a href="#cite_note-112">[112]</a><a href="#cite_note-113">[113]</a><a href="#cite_note-114">[114]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Changes_under_the_Blair_government">Changes under the Blair government</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Health_Service_(England)&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Changes under the Blair government">edit</a>]</div> These innovations, especially the "fund holder" option, were condemned at the time by the <a href="/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour Party</a>. Opposition to what was claimed to be the <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> intention to <a href="/wiki/Privatise" class="mw-redirect" title="Privatise">privatise</a> the NHS became a major feature of Labour's election campaigns.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] Labour came to power in 1997 with the promise to remove the "internal market" and abolish fundholding. However, in his second term, Blair renounced this direction. He pursued measures to strengthen the internal market as part of his plan to "modernize" the NHS.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] Several factors drove these reforms; they include the rising costs of medical technology and medicines, the desire to improve standards and "patient choice", an aging population, and a desire to contain government expenditure. (Since the National Health Services in Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland are not controlled by the UK government, these reforms have increased the differences between the National Health Services in different parts of the United Kingdom. See <a href="/wiki/NHS_Wales" title="NHS Wales">NHS Wales</a> and <a href="/wiki/NHS_Scotland" title="NHS Scotland">NHS Scotland</a> for descriptions of their developments). Reforms included (amongst other actions) the laying down of detailed <a href="/wiki/Standards_for_Better_Health" title="Standards for Better Health">service standards</a>, strict financial budgeting, revised job specifications, reintroduction of "fundholding" (under the description "practice-based commissioning"), closure of surplus facilities and emphasis on rigorous <a href="/wiki/Clinical_governance" title="Clinical governance">clinical</a> and <a href="/wiki/Corporate_governance" title="Corporate governance">corporate governance</a>. Some new services were developed to help manage demand, including <a href="/wiki/NHS_Direct" title="NHS Direct">NHS Direct</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Agenda_for_Change" title="Agenda for Change">Agenda for Change</a> agreement aimed to provide harmonized pay and career progression. These changes have given rise to controversy within the medical professions, the news media, and the public. The <a href="/wiki/British_Medical_Association" title="British Medical Association">British Medical Association</a> in a 2009 document on <a href="/wiki/Independent_Sector_Treatment_Centre" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent Sector Treatment Centre">Independent Sector Treatment Centres</a> (ISTCs) urged the government to restore the NHS to a service based on public provision, not private ownership; co-operation, not competition; integration, not fragmentation; and public service, not private profits.<a href="#cite_note-BMAonISTCs-115">[115]</a> The <a href="/wiki/Tony_Blair" title="Tony Blair">Blair</a> government, whilst leaving services free at the point of use, encouraged outsourcing of medical services and support to the private sector. Under the <a href="/wiki/Private_Finance_Initiative" class="mw-redirect" title="Private Finance Initiative">Private Finance Initiative</a>, an increasing number of hospitals were built (or rebuilt) by private sector consortia; hospitals may have both medical services such as ISTCs<a href="#cite_note-116">[116]</a> and non-medical services such as catering provided under long-term contracts by the private sector. A study by a consultancy company for the Department of Health shows that every £200 million spent on privately financed hospitals will result in the loss of 1000 doctors and nurses.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] The first PFI hospitals contain some 28 percent fewer beds than the ones they replaced.<a href="#cite_note-117">[117]</a> The NHS was also required to take on pro-active socially "directive" policies, for example, in respect of <a href="/wiki/Tobacco_smoking" title="Tobacco smoking">smoking</a> and <a href="/wiki/Obesity" title="Obesity">obesity</a>.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Information_technology">Information technology</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Health_Service_(England)&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Information technology">edit</a>]</div> In the 1980s and 90s, NHS IT spent money on several failed IT projects. The Wessex project, in the 1980s, attempted to standardize IT systems across a regional health authority. The <a href="/wiki/London_Ambulance_Service" title="London Ambulance Service">London Ambulance Service</a> was to be a computer-aided dispatch system. <a href="/wiki/Read_code" title="Read code">Read code</a> was an attempt to develop a new electronic language of health,<a href="#cite_note-gamble-118">[118]</a> later scheduled to be replaced by <a href="/wiki/SNOMED_CT" title="SNOMED CT">SNOMED CT</a>.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] The <a href="/wiki/NHS_Information_Authority" title="NHS Information Authority">NHS Information Authority</a> (NHSIA) was established by an Act of Parliament in 1999 to bring together four NHS IT and Information bodies (NHS Telecoms, Family Health Service (FHS), NHS Centre for Coding and Classification (CCC) and NHS Information Management Group (IMG)) to work together to deliver IT infrastructure and information solutions to the NHS in England. A 2002 plan was for NHSIA to implement four national IT projects: Basic infrastructure, Electronic records, Electronic prescribing, and Electronic booking, modeled after the large <a href="/wiki/NHS_Direct" title="NHS Direct">NHS Direct</a> tele-nurse and healthcare website program.<a href="#cite_note-gamble-118">[118]</a> The NHSIA functions were divided into other organizations by April 2005.[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed">citation needed</a>] In 2002, the <a href="/wiki/NHS_Connecting_for_Health" title="NHS Connecting for Health">NHS National Programme for IT</a> (NPfIT) was announced by the Department of Health. It was widely seen as a failure, and blamed for delaying the implementation of IT in the service. Even in 2020, it appeared most of the 1.38 million NHS computers were still using <a href="/wiki/Windows_7" title="Windows 7">Windows 7</a>, which was released in 2009, and additional support had to be arranged by <a href="/wiki/Microsoft" title="Microsoft">Microsoft</a> until 14 January 2021 before the migration to Windows 10 could be completed. <a href="/wiki/NHSX" title="NHSX">NHSX</a>, the organization set up to manage NHS information technology was supervising the migration and has the power to impose sanctions on laggards.<a href="#cite_note-119">[119]</a> Despite problems with internal IT programs, the NHS has broken new ground in providing health information to the public via the Internet. In June 2007 www.nhs.uk was relaunched under the banner "NHS Choices"<a href="#cite_note-120">[120]</a> as a comprehensive health information service for the public now known simply as "The NHS Website". In a break with the norm for government sites, www.nhs.uk allows users to add public comments giving their views on individual hospitals and to add comments to the articles it carries. It also enables users to compare hospitals for treatment via a "scorecard".<a href="#cite_note-121">[121]</a> In April 2009 it became the first official site to publish hospital death rates (Hospital Standardised Mortality Rates) for the whole of England. Its Behind the Headlines daily health news analysis service,<a href="#cite_note-122">[122]</a> which critically appraises media stories and the science behind them, was declared Best Innovation in Medical Communication in the prestigious BMJ Group Awards 2009.<a href="#cite_note-123">[123]</a> and in a 2015 case study was found to provide highly accurate and detailed information when compared to other sources<a href="#cite_note-124">[124]</a> In 2012, NHS England launched the NHS Apps Library, listing apps that had been reviewed by clinicians.<a href="#cite_note-125">[125]</a> In 2018, the NHS announced they would abandon the name NHS Choices, and in the future, call the site the NHS website. This coincided with the launch of the <a href="/wiki/NHS_app" title="NHS app">NHS app</a>.<a href="#cite_note-126">[126]</a> Eleven of the NHS hospitals in the West London Cancer Network were linked using the IOCOM Grid System in 2009. This helped increase collaboration and meeting attendance and even improved clinical decisions.<a href="#cite_note-127">[127]</a> Twenty-one different electronic systems were used in the NHS in England to record data on patients in 2019. These systems do not communicate well with each other so a risk doctors are treating a patient will not know everything they need to know to treat the patient effectively. There were 11 million patient interactions out of 121 million where information from a previous visit could not be accessed. Half the Trusts using Electronic Medical Records use one of three systems and at least those three should be able to share information. A tenth of Trusts used multiple systems in the same hospital. Leigh Warren who participated in the research said, "Hospitals and GPs often don't have the right information about the right patient in the right place at the right time. This can lead to errors and accidents that can threaten patients' lives."<a href="#cite_note-128">[128]</a> In February 2022 <a href="/wiki/Sajid_Javid" title="Sajid Javid">Sajid Javid</a> declared that at least 90% of NHS trusts should have <a href="/wiki/Electronic_patient_record" class="mw-redirect" title="Electronic patient record">electronic patient record</a> systems by the end of 2023 and that the remaining 10% of trusts without them must be in the implementation phase by December 2023. He wants 80% of social care providers to have a digital record in place by March 2024. He also said he wanted 75% of adults in England to have downloaded the <a href="/wiki/NHS_App" class="mw-redirect" title="NHS App">NHS App</a> by March 2024.<a href="#cite_note-129">[129]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Sale_of_data">Sale of data</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Health_Service_(England)&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Sale of data">edit</a>]</div> Information on millions of NHS patients in England was sold to international pharmaceutical companies, in the US and other nations for research, adding to concerns over USA ambitions to access remunerative parts of the NHS after Brexit. There is concern over a lack of transparency and clarity over the data and how it is used. Phil Booth of <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://medconfidential.org/">medConfidential</a>, campaigning for the privacy of health data, said: "Patients should know how their data is used. There should be no surprises. While legitimate research for public health benefit is to be encouraged, it must always be consensual, safe, and properly transparent. Do patients know – have they even been told by the one in seven GP practices across England that pass on their clinical details – that their medical histories are being sold to multinational pharma companies in the US and around the world?"<a href="#cite_note-130">[130]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Surgery">Surgery</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Health_Service_(England)&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Surgery">edit</a>]</div> Waiting times for routine surgery have fallen substantially since 2000[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers">needs update</a>]. As of July 2019, the median wait for planned care in England is under 8 weeks. The number of people waiting over 12 months has fallen from over 200,000 in the 1980s to under 2000 in 2019.<a href="#cite_note-131">[131]</a>[<a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers">needs update</a>] However the number of patients on the waiting list has risen recently as constrained funding, hospital beds and staffing growth has not kept up with increasing patient need.<a href="#cite_note-132">[132]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Smoking_cessation">Smoking cessation</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Health_Service_(England)&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Smoking cessation">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Smoking_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Smoking in the United Kingdom">Smoking in the United Kingdom</a></div> Smoking is the greatest cause of avoidable illness and death in England and costs the NHS £2.5 billion a year and the economy £11bn.<a href="#cite_note-:0-133">[133]</a> <a href="/wiki/Public_Health_England" title="Public Health England">Public Health England</a> (PHE) states that one in four hospital patients smoke tobacco products, higher than the proportion in the general population, and smoking causes 96,000 deaths per year in England and twenty times the number of smoking-related illnesses. PHE wants hospitals to help smokers quit. Few patients who smoke are referred to a hospital or community-based cessation program. During their hospital stay, over a quarter of patients were not asked if they smoked and nearly three-quarters of smokers were not asked if they wanted to stop. PHE states smoking patients should be offered specialized help to stop nicotine replacement therapy. Frank Ryan, a psychologist said, "It's really about refocusing our efforts and motivating our service users and staff to quit. And of course, whatever investment we make in smoking cessation programs, there's a payback many times more in terms of the health benefits and even factors such as attendance at work, because it's workers who smoke [who] tend to have more absent spells from work."<a href="#cite_note-134">[134]</a> The numbers of smokers getting help to quit has fallen due to cuts in funding for smoking cessation care, though the <a href="/wiki/National_Institute_for_Health_and_Care_Excellence" title="National Institute for Health and Care Excellence">National Institute for Health and Care Excellence</a> recommends such help.<a href="#cite_note-:0-133">[133]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Check-ups">Check-ups</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Health_Service_(England)&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Check-ups">edit</a>]</div> <a href="/wiki/NHS_Health_Check" title="NHS Health Check">NHS Health Check</a> is a prevention programme that invites adults without pre-existing health conditions, aged between 40 and 74 in England for a health check-up every five years to screen for key conditions including <a href="/wiki/Cardiovascular_disease" title="Cardiovascular disease">heart disease</a>, <a href="/wiki/Diabetes" title="Diabetes">diabetes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kidney_disease" title="Kidney disease">kidney disease</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Stroke" title="Stroke">stroke</a>.<a href="#cite_note-135">[135]</a> Local authorities are responsible for the commissioning of the programme, with GPs being the most common provider, followed by community outreach and pharmacy providers.<a href="#cite_note-136">[136]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Public_satisfaction_and_criticism">Public satisfaction and criticism</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Health_Service_(England)&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Public satisfaction and criticism">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Criticism_of_the_National_Health_Service_(England)" title="Criticism of the National Health Service (England)">Criticism of the National Health Service (England)</a></div> A 2016 survey by <a href="/wiki/Ipsos_MORI" title="Ipsos MORI">Ipsos MORI</a> found that the NHS tops the list of "things that makes us most proud to be British" at 48%.<a href="#cite_note-137">[137]</a> An independent survey conducted in 2004 found that users of the NHS often expressed very high levels of satisfaction about their personal experience of the medical services. Of hospital inpatients, 92% said they were satisfied with their treatment; 87% of GP users were satisfied with their GP; 87% of hospital outpatients were satisfied with the service they received; and 70% of Accident and Emergency department users reported being satisfied.<a href="#cite_note-NHS_2004_survey-138">[138]</a> Despite this some patients complain about being unable to see a GP at once when they feel their condition requires prompt attention.<a href="#cite_note-139">[139]</a> When asked whether they agreed with the question "My local NHS is providing me with a good service" 67% of those surveyed agreed with it, and 51% agreed with the statement "The NHS is providing a good service."<a href="#cite_note-NHS_2004_survey-138">[138]</a> The reason for this disparity between personal experience and overall perceptions is not clear; however, researchers at <a href="/wiki/King%27s_College_London" title="King's College London">King's College London</a> found high-profile media spectacles may function as part of a wider 'blame business', in which the media, lawyers and regulators have vested interests.<a href="#cite_note-140">[140]</a><a href="#cite_note-141">[141]</a> The survey found that most people believe that the national press is generally critical of the service (64% reporting it as being critical compared to just 13% saying the national press is favourable), and also that the national press is the least reliable source of information (50% rating it not very or not at all reliable, compared to 36% believing the press was reliable) .<a href="#cite_note-NHS_2004_survey-138">[138]</a> Newspapers were reported as being less favourable and also less reliable than the broadcast media. The most reliable sources of information were considered leaflets from GPs and information from friends (both 77% reported as reliable) and medical professionals (75% considered reliable).<a href="#cite_note-NHS_2004_survey-138">[138]</a> Some examples of criticism include: <ol><li>Some extremely expensive treatments may be available in some areas but not in others, the so-called <a href="/wiki/Postcode_lottery" title="Postcode lottery">postcode lottery</a>.<a href="#cite_note-142">[142]</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/NHS_National_Programme_for_IT" class="mw-redirect" title="NHS National Programme for IT">National Programme for IT</a>, which was designed to provide infrastructure for <a href="/wiki/Electronic_prescribing" title="Electronic prescribing">electronic prescribing</a>, booking appointments and elective surgery, and a national care records service. The program ran into delays and overspending before it was finally abandoned.</li> <li>In 2008 there was a decreasing availability of NHS dentistry following a new government contract<a href="#cite_note-BBC_dentist_shortage-143">[143]</a> and a trend towards dentists accepting private patients only,<a href="#cite_note-GMTV_dentist_shortage-144">[144]</a> with 1 in 10 dentists having left the NHS. However, in 2014 the number of NHS dental patients increased.<a href="#cite_note-MDDUS_Patient_increase-145">[145]</a></li> <li>There have been several high-profile scandals within the NHS. In the past three decades, there have been scandals at acute hospitals such as <a href="/wiki/Alder_Hey_organs_scandal" title="Alder Hey organs scandal">Alder Hey organs scandal</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Bristol_heart_scandal" title="Bristol heart scandal">Bristol Royal Infirmary Heart Scandal</a>. <a href="/wiki/Stafford_Hospital_scandal" title="Stafford Hospital scandal">The Stafford Hospital Scandal</a> during the first decade of the 21st century highlighted poor care and high mortality rates among patients.</li> <li>A 14 October 2008 article in <a href="/wiki/The_Daily_Telegraph" title="The Daily Telegraph">The Daily Telegraph</a> stated: "An NHS trust has spent more than £12,000 on private treatment for hospital staff because its waiting times are too long."<a href="#cite_note-146">[146]</a></li> <li>The NHS has been criticized in the past for funding <a href="/wiki/Homeopathy#Medical_and_scientific_analysis_and_criticisms" title="Homeopathy">homeopathic</a> medicines, which are not supported by scientific research. £4 million of funding was given in 2010.<a href="#cite_note-147">[147]</a> The NHS ceased funding homeopathy in 2017.<a href="#cite_note-TNHS-148">[148]</a></li> <li>The absence of identity/residence checks on patients at clinics and hospitals allows people who ordinarily reside overseas to travel to the UK to obtain free treatment, at the expense of the UK taxpayer. A report published in 2007 estimates that the NHS bill for treatment of so-called 'health tourists' was £30m, 0.03% of the total cost.<a href="#cite_note-149">[149]</a></li> <li>Negative media coverage about the NHS commonly focuses on staff shortages and the consequences on patients' health and care.<a href="#cite_note-150">[150]</a><a href="#cite_note-151">[151]</a><a href="#cite_note-152">[152]</a></li></ol> In November 2022 a survey by <a href="/wiki/Ipsos" title="Ipsos">Ipsos</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Health_Foundation" title="Health Foundation">Health Foundation</a> found just 8% of people surveyed in England thought the government plans for the NHS were appropriate.<a href="#cite_note-153">[153]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Quality_of_healthcare,_and_accreditation">Quality of healthcare, and accreditation</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Health_Service_(England)&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Quality of healthcare, and accreditation">edit</a>]</div> There are many regulatory bodies with a role in the NHS, both government-based (e.g., <a href="/wiki/Department_of_Health_and_Social_Care" title="Department of Health and Social Care">Department of Health and Social Care</a>, <a href="/wiki/General_Medical_Council" title="General Medical Council">General Medical Council</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nursing_and_Midwifery_Council" title="Nursing and Midwifery Council">Nursing and Midwifery Council</a>), and non-governmental-based (e.g., <a href="/wiki/Medical_royal_college" title="Medical royal college">Royal Colleges</a>). Independent accreditation groups exist within the UK, such as the public sector <a href="/wiki/Trent_Accreditation_Scheme" title="Trent Accreditation Scheme">Trent Accreditation Scheme</a> and the private sector CHKS. Concerning assessing, maintaining, and improving the quality of healthcare, in common with many other developed countries, the UK government has separated the roles of suppliers of healthcare and assessors of the quality of its delivery. Quality is assessed by independent bodies such as the <a href="/wiki/Healthcare_Commission" title="Healthcare Commission">Healthcare Commission</a> according to <a href="/wiki/Standards_for_Better_Health" title="Standards for Better Health">standards</a> set by the Department of Health and the <a href="/wiki/National_Institute_for_Health_and_Clinical_Excellence" class="mw-redirect" title="National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence">National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence</a> (NICE). Responsibility for assessing quality transferred to the <a href="/wiki/Care_Quality_Commission" title="Care Quality Commission">Care Quality Commission</a> in April 2009. 700 hospital patients suffered harm in serious incidents due to treatment delays in part of 2015–16, 1,027 hospital patients suffered similar harm in 2016-17 and this rose to 1,515 in 2017–18. <a href="/wiki/Norman_Lamb" title="Norman Lamb">Norman Lamb</a> blames understaffing. <a href="/wiki/NHS_Improvement" title="NHS Improvement">NHS Improvement</a> stated during 2017-18 the NHS was short of 93,000 staff, which included 10,000 doctors and 37,000 nurses.<a href="#cite_note-154">[154]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Performance">Performance</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Health_Service_(England)&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Performance">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/NHS_targets" title="NHS targets">NHS targets</a> and <a href="/wiki/National_Health_Service#Performance" title="National Health Service">National Health Service § Performance</a></div> In 2014 the <a href="/wiki/Nuffield_Trust" title="Nuffield Trust">Nuffield Trust</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Health_Foundation" title="Health Foundation">Health Foundation</a> produced a report comparing the performance of the NHS in the four countries of the UK since devolution in 1999. They included data for the North East of England as an area more similar to the devolved areas than the rest of England. They found that there was little evidence that any one country was moving ahead of the others consistently across the available indicators of performance. There have been improvements in all four countries in life expectancy and rates of mortality amenable to health care. Despite the hotly contested policy differences between the four countries, there was little evidence, where there was comparable data, of any significant differences in outcomes. The authors also complained about the increasingly limited set of comparable data on the four health systems of the UK.<a href="#cite_note-155">[155]</a> Medical school places are set to increase by 25% from 2018.<a href="#cite_note-156">[156]</a> A report from <a href="/wiki/Public_Health_England" title="Public Health England">Public Health England</a>'s Neurology Intelligence Network based on hospital outpatient data for 2012–13 showed that there was significant variation in access to services by <a href="/wiki/Clinical_commissioning_group" title="Clinical commissioning group">clinical commissioning group</a>. In some places, there was no access at all to consultant neurologists or nurses. The number of new consultant adult neurology outpatient appointments varied between 2,531 per 100,000 resident population in <a href="/wiki/London_Borough_of_Camden" title="London Borough of Camden">Camden</a> to 165 per 100,000 in <a href="/wiki/Doncaster" title="Doncaster">Doncaster</a>.<a href="#cite_note-157">[157]</a> Following the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a dramatic increase in the backlog of people waiting for treatment.<a href="#cite_note-:6-158">[158]</a> The BMI said "the backlog in secondary care consists of the care that the NHS would normally have delivered but which was disrupted as COVID-19 impacted service delivery".<a href="#cite_note-:6-158">[158]</a> In December 2022 over 7 million people were on a hospital waiting list in England, 1 in 8 English people. Many had waited for months.<a href="#cite_note-159">[159]</a> This was the largest number since the start of records. 37,837 patients waited over 12 hours for hospital admission after it had been decided to admit them in November 2022, 255% more than in 2021 and 3,303% more than in November 2019.<a href="#cite_note-guardian10/12/2022-49">[49]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Mental_health_services">Mental health services</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Health_Service_(England)&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Mental health services">edit</a>]</div> The NHS provides mental health services free of charge but normally requires a referral from a GP first. Services that do not need a referral include psychological therapies through the <a href="/wiki/Improving_Access_to_Psychological_Therapies" title="Improving Access to Psychological Therapies">Improving Access to Psychological Therapies</a> initiative, and treatment for those with drug and alcohol problems. The NHS also provides online services that help patients find the resources most relevant to their needs.<a href="#cite_note-160">[160]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Health_Service_(England)&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1184024115">.mw-parser-output .div-col{margin-top:0.3em;column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .div-col-small{font-size:90%}.mw-parser-output .div-col-rules{column-rule:1px solid #aaa}.mw-parser-output .div-col dl,.mw-parser-output .div-col ol,.mw-parser-output .div-col ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .div-col li,.mw-parser-output .div-col dd{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}</style><div class="div-col" style="column-width: 40em;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Genomics_England" title="Genomics England">Genomics England</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Health_forecasting" title="Health forecasting">Health forecasting</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Healthcare_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Healthcare in the United Kingdom">Healthcare in the United Kingdom</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NHS_trusts_in_England" title="List of NHS trusts in England">List of NHS trusts in England</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NHS_Credit_Union" title="NHS Credit Union">NHS Credit Union</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/School_health_services" class="mw-redirect" title="School health services">School health services</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NHS_Volunteer_Responders" title="NHS Volunteer Responders">NHS Volunteer Responders</a> (England)</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=National_Health_Service_(England)&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media 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Verso. <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-84467-539-4" title="Special:BookSources/1-84467-539-4">1-84467-539-4</a> (Polemic against <a href="/wiki/Private_finance_initiative" title="Private finance initiative">PFI</a> and other new finance initiatives in the NHS)</li> <li>Rudolf Klein (2010), The New Politics of the NHS: From creation to reinvention. Radcliffe Publishing <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-84619-409-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-84619-409-2">978-1-84619-409-2</a> ( Authoritative analysis of policy making (political not clinical)in the NHS from its birth to the end of 2009)</li> <li>Geoffrey Rivett (1998) From Cradle to Grave, 50 years of the NHS. 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