Keywords
Comparative Study
United Kingdom
Pakistan
NHS
Health Financing
Professionalism
Disease Surveillance
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Abstract
Background: The success, efficiency, and equity of health service delivery in the world depends on the practices of healthcare management. This comparative paper will focus on healthcare management in the United Kingdom and Pakistan, the country with very different economic resources, government systems, and health systems legacies.
Purpose: The study is intended to compare healthcare management practices on five main areas namely governance and leadership, financial management, human resource management, quality assurance and professionalism and health information systems.
Methods: The qualitative comparative case study approach was used, and the analysis of documents, reviews of policies and secondary data based on the peer-reviewed literature, governmental reports, and international healthcare databases were utilized.
Findings: The findings show that there are considerable differences in the two systems. Standardized, resource-consuming management, strong regulatory oversight, but workforce shortages and financial pressures are some of the weaknesses affecting the UK National Health Service which has a standardized management practice. The disjointed healthcare system in Pakistan demonstrates the adaptive management strategies in resource-constrained environments, high degree of public-privacy disconnects, new community health worker programmes and new digital health projects. The two systems have shared problems such as migration of workforce, lack of quality assurance and the necessity to have integrated disease surveillance.
Conclusion: Although the UK provides a course on the standardized quality assurance, the measurement of professionalism and the integrated care systems, Pakistan provides the innovative solutions to the core health services packaging, and the management of the partnership between the population and the business. The research proposes context-based hybrid management frameworks of strengthening health systems.