explain health care provisons relating to health care in the uk?
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Need to be alive first.
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Most practices offer both private and NHS dental services. I found an interesting article regarding this: \n\nhttp://www.gm.tv/index.cfm?articleid=5154 \n\nI recommend to call several of them and ask if they have both private and NHS services. Also ask for price comparison for those services. It is worth it to shop around. \n\nhttp://www.nhs.uk/england/dentists/
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try those.\n\n\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_National_Government\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_government
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In the UK, the National Health Service provides doctors, nurses, clinics (for immunisation, flu jabs etc), hospitals, subsidized dental work for the poor, and subsidized eyechecks and glasses for the poor.
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It's the the level of care legally required of someone in a particular situation.  For instance, parents are legally required to provide a certain level of care to their children, just as a doctor is required to exercise a certain level of care to his or her patient.  Not meeting this level of care can lead to legal liability.
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http://www.workpermit.com/uk/uk.htm\n\nCheck this website.  It should give you more of an idea plus i includes other european countries.\n\nGood Luck
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Duty of care is the legal obligation of a health care professional (doctor, nurse, etc.) to treat a patient.  A nurse is expected to provide care for all patients in their facility within the guidelines of their scope of practice as set forth by their state board of nursing.  That means, for example, that a nurse can not refuse to care for a patient just because that patient has an infectious disease, or because the nurse doesn't agree with their religious beliefs, sexual orientation, or whatever. It also means that a nurse can not exceed their scope of practice (such as by performing procedures that only a doctor can legally perform).
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http://www.dh.gov.uk/PolicyAndGuidance/HealthAndSocialCareTopics/MentalHealth/fs/en
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A Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) is a type of Managed Care Organization (MCO) that provides a form of health insurance coverage in the United States that is fulfilled through hospitals, doctors, and other providers with which the HMO has a contract. Unlike traditional indemnity insurance, care provided in an HMO generally follows a set of care guidelines provided through the HMO's network of providers. Under this model, providers contract with an HMO to receive more patients and in return usually agree to provide services at a discount. This arrangement allows the HMO to charge a lower monthly premium, which is an advantage over indemnity insurance, provided that its members are willing to abide by the additional restrictions.\n\n\nTypes of HMOs\nHMOs operate in a variety of forms. Most HMOs today do not fit neatly into one form; they can have multiple divisions, each operating under a different model, or blend two or more models together.\n\nIn the STAFF MODEL, physicians are salaried and have offices in HMO buildings. In this case, physicians are direct employees of the HMOs. This model is an example of a closed-panel HMO, meaning that contracted physicians may only see HMO patients.\n\nIn the GROUP MODEL, the HMO does not pay the physicians directly, but pays a physician group. The group then decides how to distribute the money to the individual physicians. This model is also closed-panel.\nPhysicians may contract with an independent practice association (IPA), which in turn contracts with the HMO. This model is an example of an open-panel HMO, where a physician may maintain his own office and may see non-HMO members.\n\nIn the NETWORK MODEL, an HMO will contract with any combination of groups, IPAs, and individual physicians. Since 1990, most HMOs run by managed care organizations with other lines of business (such as PPO, POS and indemnity) use the network model.\n\n\n\nHistory\nThe earliest form of HMOs can be seen in a number of prepaid health plans. In 1910, the Western Clinic in Tacoma, Washington offered lumber mill owners and their employees certain medical services from its providers for a premium of $0.50 per member per month. This is considered by some to be the first example of an HMO. In 1929, Dr. Michael Shadid created a health plan in Elk City, Oklahoma in which farmers bought shares for $50 to raise the money to build a hospital. The medical community did not like this arrangement and threatened to suspend Shadid's licence. The Farmer's Union took control of the hospital and the health plan in 1934. Also in 1929, Baylor Hospital provided approximately 1,500 teachers with prepaid care. This was the origin of Blue Cross. Around 1939, state medical societies created Blue Shield plans to cover physician services, as Blue Cross covered only hospital services. These prepaid plans burgeoned during the Great Depression as a method for providers to ensure constant and steady revenue.\n\nIn 1970, the number of HMOs declined to less than 40. Paul Ellwood, often called the "father" of the HMO, began having discussions with what is today the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that led to the enactment of the Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973. This act had three main provisions:\n\nGrants and loans were provided to plan, start, or expand an HMO \nCertain state-imposed restrictions on HMOs were removed if the HMOs were federally certified \nEmployers with 25 or more employees were required to offer federally certified HMO options alongside indemnity upon request \nThis last provision, called the dual choice provision, was the most important, as it gave HMOs access to the critical employer-based market that had often been blocked in the past. The federal government was slow to issue regulations and certify plans until 1977, when HMOs began to grow rapidly. The dual choice provision expired in 1995.\n\nStarting in 1990, Switzerland has founded several HMOs which at the moment
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No,\nThere is no other way to provide the necessary level of care than by a medical system paid for by national insurance.\n\nIf you look at the USA - it is far more expensive and inefficient than the UK without having a demonstrable increase in standards of health.\n\nIt is inefficient because its bureacracy is immense you have\nThe admin of loads of different health care providers -hospitals doctors etc.\nYou have the admin of the HMOs\nYou have the admin of the insurance companies\n\nThat costs more money than having just the admin of the health care system\n\nSecondly the private care system leads to all sorts of short termist economics that are bad for long term health and long term expenditure on health care.\n\nMore money gets spent on drugs than on preventative medicine and primary care to keep people healthy.\nAll sorts of expensive tests are done which are not strictly medically necessary.\n\nMany people are not covered by health insurance which has a knock on effect in several areas -\n1) the problem of poverty illnesses such as TB - prevalent among the homeless and STDs from people who have no access to health care.\n\n2)If you can't get proper quality health care you may take more days off work  -this has a knock on effect on the economy and therefore tax levels.\n\nI am not saying the NHS works perfectly but it is improving in many aspects - \neven the private health care companies are noticing a down turn in demand for things like knee and hip replacements to be done privately.\n\nOne issue though is that some consultants like to push people into their private clinics where they get paid twice as much and so keep waiting lists longer without good reasons.
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try going on thees sites and emailing them with your questions./.......\n\nhttp://www.uwe.ac.uk/hsc/\nhttp://www.brookes.ac.uk/schools/shsc/!\nhttp://www.nhs.uk
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Go to the NHS website, there's a page that allows to to locate NHS dentists, doctors, opticians etc etc - you type in your postcode and it gives you a list of dental practices nearest to you and also information about what categories of patients they are currently registering. Good luck!
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health care\n homelessness\nstate services
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http://www.dh.gov.uk/AboutUs/MinistersAndDepartmentLeaders/ChiefMedicalOfficer/Features/FeaturesArticle/fs/en?CONTENT_ID=4102997&chk=OcYuEL
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Well it depends if you are going private or not. Go through your Gp and then through the NHS it's free, although you have to wait.\nOtherwise different clinics and private hospitals charge different amounts.  Dr's decide how much they charge so there is no 'list' with prices on it.
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General Medical Council licenses doctors in the UK. \nhttp://www.gmc-uk.org/
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national health services are free. private clinics etc have their own tariffs so would have to check them individually