International comparisons of NHS and other countries' healthcare
The 2014 Commonwealth Fund Study is just the latest in many international comparisons of the NHS and other healthcare systems- see link and extract from the Executive Summary cited below (emphasis added):
The chart below (Exhibit ES-1 Overall Ranking) shows that the NHS scored first out of 11 comparators in relation to Effective Care, Safe Care, Co-ordinated Care, Patient-Centred Care; cost-related problems; and efficiency. The NHS scored 2nd on equity of care, and 3rd on timeliness of care. Yet the UK had the lowest expenditure per person of all comparators apart from New Zealand, and spent only 40% of the US healthcare budget per person.
http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund-reports/2014/jun/mirror-mirror
Executive Summary from The Commonwealth Fund study (link above).
The United States health care system is the most expensive in the world, but this report and prior editions consistently show the U.S. underperforms relative to other countries on most dimensions of performance. Among the 11 nations studied in this report—Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States—the U.S. ranks last, as it did in the 2010, 2007, 2006, and 2004 editions of Mirror, Mirror. Most troubling, the U.S. fails to achieve better health outcomes than the other countries, and as shown in the earlier editions, the U.S. is last or near last on dimensions of access, efficiency, and equity. In this edition of Mirror, Mirror, the United Kingdom ranks first, followed closely by Switzerland (Exhibit ES-1).
Expanding from the seven countries included in 2010, the 2014 edition includes data from 11 countries. It incorporates patients’ and physicians’ survey results on care experiences and ratings on various dimensions of care. It includes information from the most recent three Commonwealth Fund international surveys of patients and primary care physicians about medical practices and views of their countries’ health systems (2011–2013). It also includes information on health care outcomes featured in The Commonwealth Fund’s most recent (2011) national health system scorecard, and from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
The chart below (Exhibit ES-1 Overall Ranking) shows that the NHS scored first out of 11 comparators in relation to Effective Care, Safe Care, Co-ordinated Care, Patient-Centred Care; cost-related problems; and efficiency. The NHS scored 2nd on equity of care, and 3rd on timeliness of care. Yet the UK had the lowest expenditure per person of all comparators apart from New Zealand, and spent only 40% of the US healthcare budget per person.
http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund-reports/2014/jun/mirror-mirror
Executive Summary from The Commonwealth Fund study (link above).
The United States health care system is the most expensive in the world, but this report and prior editions consistently show the U.S. underperforms relative to other countries on most dimensions of performance. Among the 11 nations studied in this report—Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States—the U.S. ranks last, as it did in the 2010, 2007, 2006, and 2004 editions of Mirror, Mirror. Most troubling, the U.S. fails to achieve better health outcomes than the other countries, and as shown in the earlier editions, the U.S. is last or near last on dimensions of access, efficiency, and equity. In this edition of Mirror, Mirror, the United Kingdom ranks first, followed closely by Switzerland (Exhibit ES-1).
Expanding from the seven countries included in 2010, the 2014 edition includes data from 11 countries. It incorporates patients’ and physicians’ survey results on care experiences and ratings on various dimensions of care. It includes information from the most recent three Commonwealth Fund international surveys of patients and primary care physicians about medical practices and views of their countries’ health systems (2011–2013). It also includes information on health care outcomes featured in The Commonwealth Fund’s most recent (2011) national health system scorecard, and from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
