ANALYZING THE UNITED KINGDOM HEALTHCARE SYSTEM: LENSING ON CANCER MANAGEMENT IN ENGLAND

Year 2015, Sayı: 8, 119 - 143, 12.11.2015

Kadir Gürsoy

Abstract

United Kingdom (UK) healthcare system is quite successful for achieving the goals of good health outcomes, risk protection, and public satisfaction. Based on the Commonwealth Fund study in 2014, UK healthcare system ranks first regarding quality, access, efficiency, equity, and healthy lives among 11 developed nations with even a fair cost. However, when it comes to cancer outcomes, UK lags behind many developed countries. Cancer survival is a good example of an area in which both health outcomes and public satisfaction, key determinants of quality, are strikingly lacking. Therefore, this paper, to analyze and formulate reforms to address deficient quality in the English health system, will look at the particular example of cancer survival rates. The key factors leading to deficient outcomes in cancer survival are delays in diagnosis and access to appropriate care. Policy recommendations to improve cancer survival rates are to timely screening and early diagnostic opportunities within the primary care system, utilize available treatment capacity and quick approval and workforce training for utilization of new treatments and drugs, and continue prioritizing cancer care coordination and integration through improved referral services, and increase provider decision support

Keywords

health system performance, England healthcare system, cancer management, late diagnosis, cancer care coordination

Analyzing The Unıted Kingdom Healthcare System: Lensing On Cancer Management In England

Abstract

Büyük Britanya’nın sağlık sistemi; güçlü sağlık çıktıları, riski koruma, hasta memnuniyeti açısından övgü duyulacak kadar iyi bir seviyededir. Bu sistem göreceli olarak düşük bir maliyete sahip olmasına rağmen; 2014 yılında yapılan Commonwealth Fund çalışmasına göre kalite, erişim, hakkaniyet ve etkinlik bağlamında 11 gelişmiş ülke içinde en yüksek skora sahip olmuştur. Lakin kanser çıktılarını incelediğimiz zaman Büyük Britanya Avrupa’daki birçok gelişmiş ülkenin gerisinde kalmaktadır. Kanserli sağkalım oranı, sağlık hizmetleri için kalitenin önemli iki göstergesi olan sağlık sonuçları ve memnuniyet açısından sıkıntılı sonuçlara sahiptir. Bu yüzden, bu makale, sağlık sisteminin eksikliklerini göstermek ve kaliteyi artırmak için politika önerilerinde bulunmak amacıyla, özellikle kanserli çıktıları örneğine yoğunlaşacaktır. Kanser çıktıların yetersizliğinin en önemli nedenleri ise teşhisteki ve hastanın ihtiyaç duyduğu tedavideki gecikmelerdir. Bu sorunu çözme adına ortaya koyulacak öneriler; birinci basamakta zamanında tarama yapmak ve hastalığı ve hastalığı erken teşhis etmek, tedavi kapasitesini
arttırmak, yeni ilaç ve tedavilere hızlı bir şekilde geri ödeme için onaylamak, kanser tedavisinde koordinasyona öncelik vermek ve hizmet sunucularının karar verme sürecine katkıda bulunmak olacaktır. 

Keywords

Sağlık sistemi performansı, İngiliz sağlık sistemi, kanser yönetimi, geç teşhis, kanser tedavisinde koordinasyon

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