Legal and economic aspects of healthcare systems in France and United Kingdom

Abstract

The article presents the essential legal regulations, organization and economics of the healthcare systems in France and the United Kingdom. In order to provide the bird’s-eye view of these systems, the fundamental acts introducing them have been presented. Other most important regulations and principal bodies introducing, consulting and controlling them 150 MIECZYSŁAW BŁOŃSKI IUS NOVUM 3/2019 have been enumerated. The principal economic conditions and organization of the health systems in both countries have been discussed. The organizational overviews of both systems and their financial flows have been included. The whole analysis aimed to deliver primary information on how one of the most centralised healthcare systems in the European Union with many providers (the French one), compared with one of the most devolved in the EU but based mainly on one NHS provider (the UK one), have nearly similar effectiveness, i.e. provide nearly equalized medical services to their citizens.