The NHS is the world’s fifth largest employer, an operation so vast that it occupies one in 20 British workers. But that is just one of an almost endless list of superlatives that apply to the National Health Service. They are often forgotten in the daily shriek of claim and counterclaim about its performance.
Maligned for long waiting times and disrupted by endless reorganisation, the NHS may not sound like an international benchmark. But the respected USCommonwealth Fund health thinktank ranked the UK first in its most recent study of healthcare in 11 rich countries (June 2014).
The UK came out best in eight of the 11 areas studied, including safety and effectiveness of care and for overall efficient use of resources. However, it was placed only 10th out of the 11 nations for health outcomes and overall death rates. For the full article click here
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