September 29, 2009
Tuesday
How do the highest ranking health systems work?
<em>The Daily Telegraph reports that Britain has been ranked 14th out of 33 national health systems in Europe. Naturally one may cast doubt on the methodology of the analysis but all the same it might be worthwhile considering exactly how the systems that are ranked highest work. They are:
1. The Netherlands
2. Denmark
3. Iceland
4. Austria
5. Switzerland
6. Germany
I have heard quite a detailed description of the Swiss system which sounds interesting and preferable to the German one. But I know little of the systems in the four countries ranked above this pair.
Posted by James Bartholomew • Indexed in Further research • NHS
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You could check out the Civitas report, Quite Like Heaven, for an intro to the Dutch system: http://www.civitas.org.uk/nhs/qlh.php
Posted by: Nick Cowen at September 29, 2009 02:31 PM