Solutions to Global Healthcare

1. Privatise Healthcare

1.1. Means businesses will enter the market and then provide better services than a government as they could be more customer satisfaction driven.

1.2. Competition from other businesses would mean better quality healthcare for customers as they fight to increase market share.

2. Provide basic healthcare courses

2.1. Would reduce amount of pressure on surgeries

2.2. Mean people could treat themselves for very basic cases such as a cold.

2.3. Enable higher level of medical education for everyone.

3. Improve standard of living and other social needs

3.1. Many conditions begin or worsen due to basic needs not being met such as adequate housing.

3.2. Would prevent many illnesses occurring in the first place.

4. Online GP appointments

4.1. Have a way of seeing patients before actually visiting the surgery i.e. online appointments.

4.2. Would reduce costs of labour as less doctors will be needed to be employed in surgeries.

4.3. Doctors will have less patients to see and so can concentrate on other more important work.

4.4. Reduce travel costs for patients and take less time out of their day as no need to leave the house.

5. Provide partial free healthcare

5.1. Have a level of healthcare that is free for the whole population of the earth. i.e. provide basic GP appointments.

5.2. Only provide free healthcare for life threatening situations and then provide all other healthcare for a cost.

6. Combining medicines into a "polypill"

6.1. This is where commonly prescribed drugs are combined into one single pill.

6.2. Reduces cost for healthcare services.

6.3. A recent study in the UK showed that could prevent 15 percent of cardiovascular events per 1,000 patients, compared to taking each drug individually.