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NOT OWN WORDS – RESEARCH ONLINE REGARDING NHS SOURCE:KINGSFUN “About the NHS The NHS was launched in 1948. It was born out of a long-held ideal that good healthcare should be available to all, regardless of wealth – one of the NHS's core principles. With the exception of some charges, such as prescriptions, optical services and dental services, the NHS in England remains free at the point of use for all UK residents. This currently stands at more than 64.6 million people in the UK and 54.3 million people in England alone. The NHS in England deals with over 1 million patients every 36 hours. It covers everything, including antenatal screening, routine screenings (such as the NHS Health Check), treatments for long-term conditions, transplants, emergency treatment and end-of-life care. Responsibility for healthcare in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Walesis devolved to the Northern Ireland Assembly, the Scottish Government and the Welsh Assembly Government respectively. In 2014, the Commonwealth Fund declared that in comparison with the healthcare systems of 10 other countries (Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the US) the NHS was the most impressive overall. The NHS was rated as the best system in terms of efficiency, effective care, safe care, coordinated care, patient-centred care and cost-related problems. It was also ranked second for equity. Scale The NHS employs more than 1.5 million people, putting it in the top five of the world’s largest workforces, together with the US Department of Defence, McDonalds, Walmart and the Chinese People’s Liberation Army. The NHS in England is the biggest part of the system by far, catering to a population of 54.3 million and employing around 1.2 million people. Of those, the clinically qualified staff include 150,273 doctors, 40,584 general practitioners (GPs), 314,966 nurses and health visitors, 18,862 ambulance staff, and 111,127 hospital and community health service (HCHS) medical and dental staff. The NHS in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland employs 161,415; 84,000 and 66,000 people respectively. Funding Funding for the NHS comes directly from taxation. Since the NHS transformation in 2013, the NHS payment system has become underpinned by legislation. The Health & Social Care Act 2012 moves responsibility for pricing from the Department of Health, to a shared responsibility for NHS England and NHS Improvement. When the NHS was launched in 1948, it had a budget of £437 million (roughly £15 billion at today’s value). For 2015/16, the overall NHS budget was around £116.4 billion. NHS England is managing £101.3 billion of this. Principles and values that guide the NHS

The NHS was created out of the ideal that good healthcare should be available to all, regardless of wealth. When it was launched by the then minister of health, Aneurin Bevan, on July 5 1948, it was based on 3 core principles: • that it meet the needs of everyone • that it be free at the point of delivery • that it be based on clinical need, not ability to pay These 3 principles have guided the development of the NHS for the past 70 years and remain at its core. In March 2011, the Department of Health published the NHS Constitution. It sets out the guiding principles of the NHS and your rights as an NHS patient. The 7 key principles of the constitution are underpinned by core NHS values that have been derived from extensive discussions with staff, patients and the public. SOURCE: https://www.nhs.uk/using-the-nhs/about-the-nhs/the-nhs/

Source: Department of Health annual report and accounts 2016/17; Autumn Budget 2017; Office for Budget Responsibility November 2017 Economic and fiscal outlook: Economy supplementary tables. Planned spending for the Department of Health in England is approximately £124.7 billion in 2017/18. This includes £335 million of additional funding announced in the 2017 Autumn Budget.

Though funding for the Department of Health continues to grow, the rate of growth has slowed considerably compared to historical trends. The Department of Health budget will grow by 1.2 per cent in real terms between 2009/10 and 2020/21. This is far below the longterm average increases in health spending of approximately 4 per cent a year (above inflation) since the NHS was established and the rate of increase needed based on projections by the Office of Budget Responsibility (4.3 per cent a year). In the Autumn Budget 2017, the government provided the Department of Health with £2.8 billion in additional revenue funding for day-to-day spending such as staff salaries and medicines. Further funding on top of this amount was promised for future pay awards for NHS staff on Agenda for Change contracts, such as nurses, midwives and paramedics, subject to a deal being agreed with the unions to modernise the pay structure for Agenda for Change staff. The government has also committed to an extra £10 billion in capital funding over the parliament for investment in buildings, facilities and equipment. Central government funding accounts for £4 billion of this amount (£3.5 billion announced in the Autumn Budget and £0.4 billion announced in the Spring Budget 2017), with the remainder coming from private financing and sales of surplus NHS land and assets. In June 2018, the Prime Minister announced a new long-term funding settlement for the NHS.” https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/projects/nhs-in-a-nutshell/nhs-budget...