... be those who are not paid e.g. families who look after ill relatives. They will then use the information collected by the local population demographics, determined through categories such as age, disability, unemployment, single parent, elderly or youth related needs E.g. in a local population of high disability will buy services to provide for that need such as equipment needed for paralyzed service users like a wheelchair. These are statistics of the local population collected by either the local county or the national 10-year census. The other place information is collected from is the national targets such as the smoking ban in 2007 and the high increase in teenage pregnancy's. Members of parliament, which is then used to determine the needs of the country/population, set the national targets. The NHS is funded by the government, which is funded by tax, the NHS then give the PCT's all the money they need ...

See this essay or coursework document in full right now