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- Type:
- Document
- Date Created:
- 1996
- Collection:
- System Dynamic Society Records
- Collecting Area:
- University Archives
- Collection ID:
- ua435
- Parent Record(s):
- 23d738ba88f8333bc39725f9cb5bd0b8, ca4810593b2703dcaa087957ab13af91, and 227da936724c4223c5a64764d3922694
- Description:
- The United Kingdom National Health Services (NHS) delivers 95% of the country's health care. It is a public sector organization, which delivers health care free of charge at the point of access. With the exception of emergency services, patients cannot refer themselves directly to NHS hospitals. Instead they must be referred by a family practitioner, who acts on the "gatekeeper" to hospitals health care. If referrals give rise to excess demand, rationing takes place in the form of waiting list for non- emergency procedures. There is a small private sector which is used by some patients who have the means to bypass the NHS queues.