2. Inadequate resources
Lack of:
Funding
Staff
Equipment
Lack of the above can lead to delays in
receiving treatment
3. Examples of inadequate resources
causing delays:
Not enough care home places so elderly
people have to wait
Hospital doesn’t have a scanner so
patients have to travel
Wards closed due to lack of staff so waiting
lists longer
4. Overcome barrier of inadequate
resources by increasing funding, e.g.
Increase local taxes
Social services budgets
NHS funding
Increase national taxation – alcohol,
cigarettes, petrol etc.
5. Funding not always the answer:
May not be enough suitably trained staff to employ
even if the funding to do so is available, e.g. no
consultants or specialist nurse practitioners
around to employ then remains an inadequate
resource!
Overcome this by:
providing more training places at universities
Improving working conditions, e.g. pay
Encouraging people to enter health and care professions
6. Physical difficulties
People may find it difficult to get to services:
May work away from home
Opening times may not fit in with working hours
Live in rural areas – no car, can’t drive, no public
transport
Elderly and/or disabled may find travelling difficult
due to transport not being adapted to their needs.
7. Overcome physical barriers by:
Having NHS walk-in health centres where
appointments are not necessary
Extended opening hours
Community transport to hospital, GP
appointments, day centres and so on
Provide home visits for some clients, e.g.
community nurses
8. Communication
Speak different language
Deafness
Blindness
Illiteracy
Overcome barriers by
Multi language leaflets and information sheets
Hearing loops
Braille
Signers
Advocates
9. Ignorance
This means lack of knowledge about the
service. May be:
Don’t know the service exists
Don’t know how to access the service
Don’t know that they have the right to the service
Overcome this barrier by providing
information:
Advertising in newspapers or on TV
Leaflet distribution to houses or in health centres