UK Private Sector Involvement in Service Delivery

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UK Private Sector Involvement in Service Delivery

Introduction

Privatization encompasses any or all the processes that are aimed at shifting the functions of a government agency and its responsibilities either partially or wholly from the government to private . Formerly privatization was very much restricted and only came into existence in 1980s . By the year 1992 , all countries contracted out 34 of their services

which is a big leap compared to the 24 of 1987 . In 1992 , all the counties were noted to have contracted out the electricity and gas supplies and over half contracted out hospital services and the transist operations (Seidenstat , 1995 pg 79

How private sector is involved in service delivery

Medical services

Private sector also has been found to have higher capacity and is swifter to suit the demand of the public . The private sector is set to help in easing congestion especially in medical services whereby National Health Fund (NHF ) is the main health /care firm but services are offered by private sector through utilizing Private Finance Initiative (PFI

Political parties in UK especially Labor Party now believe that NHF should work interactively with private sector by contracting out services to be delivered (Long , 2003 pg 23

Public institutions sometimes cannot undertake costly plans to provide healthcare thus it has to involve private sector in carrying out operations that take longer and are more complex...