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?????????????????????????????????????????????????Monday, April 6, 2015
Britain’s health service: the best in the world?
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Sunday 05 Apr 2015
So far, so predictable. One week of the formal election campaign
underway and one key political football emerges, as so often before, the
NHS.
To hear the parties bicker – particularly Labour and the Conservatives, Britain’s health service is all but on its last legs.
Today a simple report fell into my hands.
It is a comparative survey of the health systems in eleven developed
countries – The UK, US, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, New Zealand,
Netherlands, Germany, France Canada, and Australia. It is an amazing
read.
Funded and carried out by the independent Commonwealth Fund, based in New York, Britain’s health service comes out top in nine of the researched categories, 2nd in one, and 3rd in another. It also come out significantly cheaper than any of the others surveyed. The work was carried out in 2014.
Now, it’s important to recognise that this research was not designed to
make other countries look good. It had a very US focused approach which
was to measure America’s appalling outcomes compared with the rest of
those countries surveyed. It was by happenchance that Britain came out
top.
However, there is one worrying finding. Our NHS is the best in the
world, until you come to the segment identified as ‘Healthy Lives’. Here
the UK comes second to bottom. I have contacted the researchers to find
out how a country with the best health service in world, boasts such
‘unhealthy lives’. When I have their answer… I shall follow this
Snowblog up with a sequel.
In the meantime, might it perhaps be a good idea for some British
politician somewhere to praise the ‘best health service in the world’
and see how we can make it yet better, without damaging the incredible
services currently offered free at the point of delivery?