Business BTEC, unit 1, P1
The business environment
In this assignment I will describe the type of business, purpose and ownership of two contrasting businesses.
NHS
The NHS is a public organisation, owned by the government to help people with health care, injuries, infection, disease etc. The NHS are a health care system/organisation put together to help the residents living in the U.K. They are owned by the government and the government fund them with equipment, facilities, staff etc. Also, the NHS doesn’t charge us for health care that we need. For example, they do not charge us for being diagnosed with illness by doctors, for cancer treatment etc.
The NHS is a non-profit organisation when it comes to charging the people that need health care - but they do still earn money from the government. The NHS is a national organisation, and is within the tertiary sector. The way the NHS earns money is through the government, as they are paid and funded by them. The NHS work directly with their patients, by helping them face to face with their health care, and diagnosing. Then by putting them through treatment if needed, or giving prescriptions for medicine.
Size and scale of the NHS
The NHS is a national organisation in the U.K, but they offer their services locally using hospitals. They employ workers on a large scale with about 1.7 million employees, the NHS are the largest single employer in the world.
Advantages of the NHS (public):
• The advantages for the NHS is that they are funded by the government meaning they do not have to worry about making profit to keep the NHS running.
• Another advantage would be that they provide free health care to everyone in the U.K.
Disadvantage of the NHS (public):
• The NHS is extremely bureaucratic which means that there is more red tape when making decisions with anything, this means that the NHS is inefficient and that if something needs doing within the NHS it cannot be made quickly due to all of the paper work.
Britannia Fish Bar
In this assignment I will describe the type of business, purpose and ownership of two contrasting businesses.
NHS
The NHS is a public organisation, owned by the government to help people with health care, injuries, infection, disease etc. The NHS are a health care system/organisation put together to help the residents living in the U.K. They are owned by the government and the government fund them with equipment, facilities, staff etc. Also, the NHS doesn’t charge us for health care that we need. For example, they do not charge us for being diagnosed with illness by doctors, for cancer treatment etc.
The NHS is a non-profit organisation when it comes to charging the people that need health care - but they do still earn money from the government. The NHS is a national organisation, and is within the tertiary sector. The way the NHS earns money is through the government, as they are paid and funded by them. The NHS work directly with their patients, by helping them face to face with their health care, and diagnosing. Then by putting them through treatment if needed, or giving prescriptions for medicine.
Size and scale of the NHS
The NHS is a national organisation in the U.K, but they offer their services locally using hospitals. They employ workers on a large scale with about 1.7 million employees, the NHS are the largest single employer in the world.
Advantages of the NHS (public):
• The advantages for the NHS is that they are funded by the government meaning they do not have to worry about making profit to keep the NHS running.
• Another advantage would be that they provide free health care to everyone in the U.K.
Disadvantage of the NHS (public):
• The NHS is extremely bureaucratic which means that there is more red tape when making decisions with anything, this means that the NHS is inefficient and that if something needs doing within the NHS it cannot be made quickly due to all of the paper work.
Britannia Fish Bar