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Received 2010 Sep 1; Accepted 2010 Sep 27; Issue date 2010 Dec.

. The National Health System in the UK has developed to become one of the largest health care systems on the planet. At the time of writing of this evaluation (August 2010) the UK government in its 2010 White Paper "Equity and excellence: Liberating the NHS" has announced a strategy on how it will "produce a more responsive, patient-centred NHS which accomplishes outcomes that are among the best on the planet". This review short article presents an introduction of the UK health care system as it currently stands, with focus on Predictive, Preventive and Personalised Medicine elements. It aims to serve as the basis for future EPMA short articles to expand on and present the changes that will be executed within the NHS in the upcoming months.

Keywords: UK, Healthcare system, National health system, NHS

Introduction

The UK health care system, National Health Service (NHS), came into existence in the after-effects of the Second World War and ended up being operational on the 5th July 1948. It was first proposed to the Parliament in the 1942 Beveridge Report on Social Insurance and Allied Services and it is the legacy of Aneurin Bevan, a former miner who ended up being a politician and the then Minister of Health. He established the NHS under the concepts of universality, complimentary at the point of delivery, equity, and paid for by central financing [1] Despite many political and organisational modifications the NHS stays to date a service readily available generally that takes care of people on the basis of need and not capability to pay, and which is moneyed by taxes and nationwide insurance contributions.