INFORMATION SECURITY IN THE NHS (NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE)

Research on Securing Information within National Health Service

Research on Securing Information within National Health Service

Introduction

National Health Service (NHS) was introduced in the year 1948 and is considered to be the greatest achievements of Atlee's Labour government. The core purpose for the formation of National Health Service is to facilitate those poor people who cannot afford heavy medical expenses and therefore they are provided free medical facilities under the system of NHS. Later system provided by National Health Service provided medical facilities to more than 20 million people while the remaining people where not covered under this system because of which they had to pay themselves for their medical treatments. After the formation of NHS, many doctors and medical practitioners stood against NHS as they thought that by the formation of NHS they would not be able to generate money for themselves along their professional freedom being jeopardized that is they would only be treating few private patients that would result in financial problems for these doctors.

After the formation of NHS, the system proved to be popular as most of the doctors thought of this system to be the best decision in the interest of common people. Around more than 90% of the medical practitioners joined the system of National Health Services. From the beginning of formation of NHS, they faced some financial constraints because of undervalued prediction of the amount that would be utilized within a year by the introduction of this system. The government estimated that the cost of National Health Service will cost around 140 million by the end of the year 1950 but in actual, it cost more than 350 million that was more than double of the amount (cost) predicted.

Aims and Objectives

The primary aims related to the research are;

-To explore the relationship between hospital design and security of information.

-To explore the relationship between the design of NHS and its adherence to the information security requirements.

-To analyze various important aspects of NHS that impacts the security of information.

-To analyze various important aspects of hospital design that becomes the major reasons of information leakage.

-To explore the measures through which the current NHS design can be altered for the purpose of improving the information security.

Background of the Research

This research aims to investigate about the importance of securing Information within the National Health Service Sector as it is among the most important health services facilitator within the country and relevant concerns that are related to the security of the information remains extremely important for the safety of peoples life. This research will also intend to explore about the significance of the measures taken by National Health Service in relation with the information security. The research remains extremely important from the viewpoint of health sector information. This research proposal tends to discuss the issue of information security with relation to the hospital design.

A critical review of key factors within the system of NHS that impact the information security will ...