To what extent has the N.H.S. fulfilled its commitment to equal health care for all?

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Health affects every aspect of life, and it not surprising that health care is a major focus for social concern. Governments have been aware of the importance of the population's access to health care for a very long time and began to intervene in this sense even before 1900, in helping the poor people. However, the true first step in the state's intervention in health care occurred after the end of the second Boer War, in 1911, with the Health Insurance Act. It was a first step, but some important problems in the functioning of the system, as for example the difficulties of the middle classes to access to care, made changes necessary. Among the first part of the twentieth century, some others steps had been taken towards the building of a National Health Service (N.H.S.). In this, the Beveridge report of 1942 has been particularly important. We have had to wait until the end of the Second World War to assist to the creation of the N.H.S., with the "National Service Act" of 1946.

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[...] For example, a problem in link with the outcome of a care can be the difficulty for users to communicate with the professionals. This might be a problem for people who have a different social and cultural background[21], making them disable to communicate with the professional staff, they can not benefit from the care as much as the others. In this consideration, a start had been made in 1994, when the Audit Commission wrote a report that explained how to improve communication in hospitals[22]. But it still remains a lot to do to improve the equality concerning the outcome of care. [...]

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[...] fulfilled its commitment to equal health care for all? Health affects every aspect of life, and it not surprising that health care is a major focus for social concern. Governments have been aware of the importance of the population's access to health care for a very long time and began to intervene in this sense even before 1900, in helping the poor people. However, the true first step in the state's intervention in health care occurred after the end of the second Boer War, in 1911, with the Health Insurance Act. [...]