Social Care in the UK Essay -- Government Politics Welfare

This sample attempts to discuss the dominant social polity perspectives that take influenced social insurance policy making in the United Kingdom since 1945. To explain how differing perspectives have responded to healthc ar as a social problem.To describe two key policies that have been instigated since the start of New Labour in 1997, and to examine a modern social policy relating to health. In 1941 Sir William Beveridge was commissioned by the then conservativist prime minister, Winston Churchill to conduct a study of the welfare system of the time. The Beveridge tarradiddle paved the way for the welfare state as we know it and was strategic in shaping the social democratic ideology that remained prevalent until the mid(prenominal) 1970s.The key principals behind most social democratic ideology are that of equality and collectivism. In practice, the state manages the economy using Keynesian economic principals, manages the provision of welfare through the welfare state and takes a regulatory roll in peoples lives. This protects citizens from the extremes of poverty and prevents major economic inequality.The New right wing ideology came to the fore in the mid 1970s as a result of a major recession and the reality of an economic crisis.The 1979 global election was won by the Conservative party led by Margaret Thatcher. Thatcher was prime minister until 1990 in a period of politics that came to be known as Thatcherism. Two key thinkers of the time were Milton Friedman and Friedrich von Hayek who saw the poverty-stricken market as central to the success of Thatcherism and believed that government should concentrate on economic issues, thus allowing market forces to shape society.From the early 1990s a new, politically cen... ...el medical treatment, help and advice via centres that are easy to access. The NHS annual review article 2009-2010 found that NHS direct recommended to 49% of callers to go to less urgent/ cut down cost po ints of care, saved 2.4 million GP appointments and 1.2 million ambulance journeys (www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk 2010).Disadvantages of these direct function are that they are extremely expensive and only offer a reactive form of health care, while not providing enough health education. Works CitedPilkington A & Yeo A Sociology in focus Haddington, Scotprint. 2004.Pugh P & Garratt C, Keynes a graphic guide London, Icon books. 2009.Walsh M, Stephens P & Moore S Social policy and welfare, Stanley Thornes Ltd. 2000www.nhsdirect.nhs.uk.