Received 2010 Sep 1; Accepted 2010 Sep 27; Issue date 2010 Dec.
. The National Health System in the UK has actually evolved to turn into one of the biggest healthcare systems worldwide.
At the time of writing of this review (August 2010) the UK federal government in its 2010 White Paper "Equity and quality: Liberating the NHS" has revealed a method on how it will "produce a more responsive, patient-centred NHS which achieves results that are amongst the very best in the world".
This review post provides an introduction of the UK healthcare system as it currently stands, with emphasis on Predictive, Preventive and Personalised Medicine aspects.
It intends to act as the basis for future EPMA posts to expand on and provide the changes that will be carried out within the NHS in the forthcoming months.