How the NHS measures up to other health systems

Ingleby, David, McKee, Martin, Mladovsky, Philipa ORCID: 0000-0001-7761-6928 and Rechel, Bernd (2012) How the NHS measures up to other health systems. BMJ, 344. ISSN 1756-1833

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The government’s plans for reorganising the English National Health Service have sparked heated discussions about the performance of the UK health system in comparison with that of other countries. Politicians favouring reform have emphasised real and perceived shortcomings of the NHS, while opponents have lauded its successes. Objective data have been sadly lacking in much of this debate. Arbitrary examples of good or bad performance from the UK and various other countries have been thrown back and forth, often using totally incommensurable data. Two new publications from the Commonwealth Fund, a New York based health policy institute, shed some much needed light on these questions.1 2 We analyse the data and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the NHS in the light of current proposals for reform.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	http://www.bmj.com/
Additional Information:	© 2012 BMJ Publishing
Divisions:	LSE Health
Subjects:	R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine
Date Deposited:	27 Feb 2012 16:43
Last Modified:	12 Dec 2024 00:06
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/42050

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