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How well do health services work?

What sort of measures should we use:

- WHO has tried to give an overview of all of the health services in the world
- Within the NHS people are continually comparing different places
- What evidence do we have?



WHO overview

The World Health Organisation compared the health services of most of the countries of the world. France came out top. My French friends were dumbfounded.

Comparing within the NHS

The NHS provides the great majority of the health services to the UK. It is therefore in an excellent position to collect statistics comparing measures of success of the service in different areas.

Calculator

There is a calculator here for people who like to look at esoteric methods of measuring whether people get better or not, when they are treated.

Evidence

There is a further page on evidence here

 

 


 

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Norman Vetter
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