The labor government has proposes a constitution for National Health Service on the lines of BBC charter. This radical charter is backed by the Prime Minister Tony Blair and his next in command Gordon Brown. The present charter proposal is in direct response to the strike by NHS logistics staff, its first in nearly two decades who fear that privatization will result in job cuts which will directly affect them.

The constitution would determine the boundaries over the extent of privatization of the system. According to Health Minister Andy Burnham “Our vision for the NHS should be a system in which the funding and policy framework is set centrally by ministers, but the service has more operational independence at a local and regional level to carry through necessary changes”.

Problems with NHS

Even though it is a completely state run system, it has same problems that the American system is facing at present like shortage of physicians and support staff, long waiting for the treatment, inadequate treatment incase of high risk and complicated disease, lack of hygiene standards in the hospital and problems in getting preventive medicines.

Most experts in Britain believe that this commercialization of the NHS will jeopardize patient care and put financial interests before medication like in America, where 16 percent of the GDP is spend on Health care still there are 42 million people uncovered compare to Britain which spends only 11 percent of the GDP on healthcare and still able to cover all its people.

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