Wednesday, 5 December 2007

Health Issues in Britain

Hi Annie
About Health issues in Britain I did some rearch from The Times,name of the Healthcare tursts are 'Letting down patients with long-term illness'.

Now days the NHS in England and Wales has improved, but there are still some areas has a few serious problems.The most damaging criticsm is aimed at primary care trusts (PCTs),the bodies entrusted with planning,organising and commissioning care.

"They are failing to provide health servives to mahch th needs of their communites."the commission says.In 2006-07 only 26 per cent of PCTs were rated excellent or good by commission,compared with 33 per cent the year before.Patients may have registered as having a condition but were not called back for follow up visits.Such as dibetes and heart disease.

This year,only 60 of the 152 PCTs achieved the practice based registers ,53 per cent failing it.This is worse than the 40 per cent recorded in last year.

But I think it could have some problmes with social class and allocation of resources.Healthcare has improved but we should also clear that there is some way to go before everyone gets world class care.

Monday, 3 December 2007

Education in Britain - Homeschooling

What can you discover about non-government funded schools in Britain?
A lot a schools support by personal at present,I remembered when I was came to UK before,I checked all the schools types from internet,non-government founded schools in Britain could be some languages schools,several schools by churches,or some could be like skill training schools.

What are the advantages or disadvantages of homeschooling?
I have seen a TV program who has called Teacher's channel recently,one of the topics was about homeschooling, three lovely girls were in a famliy,youngerst sister is 6 years old,other two sisters, one is 8 years old ,one is 11 years old,their parents decided teaching their own kids by themselves at home.
Parents said they thought not because their child special than other kids,just because they living so far away from their school,and they went to see the school but they didnt think the school will suit for their kids, another reason was they believed teaching at home they could be learn more knowledge.
So in my opinion,homeschooling is good for some parents teaching at home,they would use a totally different ways to teaching kids which is suit for their child.It is not diffcult for parents right now,because they could be download any informations from internet,and they do have a lot of teaching materials at home on the internet.Children might be have more chance to choose what they like to be,but everything has two sides.So I think it could not suit for any parents or kids,some parents might not like teachers,may be the subject is too diffcult or professional,even parents could not understood totally,howcome they told to children fully.