Health Care Delivery System in Cuba

Health Care Delivery System in Cuba

Cuba is an island wiHealth Care Delivery System in United Kingdom
UK has a tax-supported heath system that is owned by the governmnet, services are available to all its citizens with out cost or for a small fee.

In 1948, the United Kingdom passed the Acts which created the three separate but co-operating National Health Services of Scotland, Northern Ireland and England and Wales that provided free physician and hospital services to all people resident in the United Kingdom.

Hospital staff are salaried employees according to nationally agreed contracts,
Whilst primary care is largely provided by independent practices, who are paid, again via a nationally agreed contract, according to the number of patients registered with them and the range of additional services offered.

The National Health Service has been amended from time to time, but is largely intact. Around 86% of prescriptions are provided free. Prescriptions are provided free to people who satisfy certain criteria such as low income or permanent disabilities. People that pay for prescriptions do not pay the full cost.

Funding comes from a hypothecated health insurance tax and from general taxation.
Private health services are also available. Private health care continued parallel to the NHS, paid for largely by private insurance, but it is used only by a small percentage of the population, and generally as a supplement to NHS services