NHS 'worse than average in treating eight common causes of death'

[Northerner]

The NHS leads the world at ensuring equal access to treatment but underperforms compared with other developed countries’ healthcare systems in preventing common causes of death, a major analysis has found.

The report, which will fuel further debate about the current state of the NHS, also found that the UK has fewer doctors, nurses, hospital beds and CT and MRI scanners than 18 other comparable countries.

The research was carried out by the Nuffield Trust, the Health Foundation, the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) and the King’s Fund. It determined that, with the NHS free at the point of use, the UK had the lowest proportion of people who avoided healthcare due to cost. Just 2.3% did so in 2016 compared with an average of 7.2% across the 19 countries, including France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the US.

https://www.theguardian.com/society...rage-in-treating-eight-common-causes-of-death

I wonder how the NHS would compare if it didn't have 100,000 vacancies and hadn't been consistently underfunded for the past 8 years?

 

[mikeyB]

I bet 99,999 of those vacancies are in admin

 

[kentish maid]

It says the NHS has less scanners and I guess that is why the husband of a friend was sent by his GP to a private clinic for a brain scan. As we have both a Health Service and private care does it not make sense for the Health Service to use the surplus capacity of a private facility rather than buy more scanners which may not be used to maximum capacity.