Erschienen in:
12.05.2023 | CE-Methodological Notes
A European national health and social service model: a few rules of the game
verfasst von:
Livio Garattini, Nick Freemantle, Alessandro Nobili, Pier Mannuccio Mannucci
Erschienen in:
Internal and Emergency Medicine
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Ausgabe 5/2023
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Excerpt
Striving to figure out a conceptual model for a European health system, we have recently concluded that a National Health and Social Service (NHSS) should be recommended as a blueprint for each European country after having analyzed the main pros and cons. However, the experience of the existing NHSs in Europe has undeniably raised the issues of political influence and administrative bureaucracy as often inter-related major concerns. Here, we consider the potential remedies to mitigate these threats, specifically highlighting the negative experiences of the British (B)NHS (the most widely recognized public health care system in the world) and the Italian (I)NHS (born in 1978 in the wake of the BNHS) with the goal to provide a few relevant examples in real practice. …