Reflective Journal

Outline the PESTEL factors driving change within the NHS.

|PESTEL Analysis |
| POLITICAL FACTORS |- Insufficient funding from the government; |
| |- White paper liberating the NHS centralization; |
| |- The direct board oversees NHS’s performance; |
| |- Changes to quality regulation and compliance; |
| |- Expectation that outcomes improve and become |
| |amongst the best in Europe; |
| |- Big Society; |
| |- Reduction in health inequalities; |
| |- Prediction of future funding gap between £20bn |
| |and £40bn in 6 years; |
| |-D raw up plans for cost cutting worth billions. |
| ECONOMIC FACTORS |- Insufficient funding from the government; |
| |- High cost of health care labor; |
| |- Economic backslide caused by Euro inflation;

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