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Wednesday, December 13th, 2023

So much for the world-beating NHS! UK doesn’t even rank in the top 20 for patient safety – and the US scores even lower

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Source:     Daily Mail (U.K.)
Publication Date:     12 December 2023 | 15:00 EST
 Link: So much for the world-beating NHS! UK doesn’t even rank in the top 20 for patient safety – and the US scores even lower
Stephan:  

This is a British report focused mostly on the damage the Tories have done to the once once superior British healthcare system. I decided to publish it because it shows once again that conservatives just don’t care about fostering wellbeing. In contrast notice also once again that nations that do make wellbeing a priority are the safest healthcare systems. Finally, take note just how awful the safety of the U.S. system is ranked. We spend, by orders of magnitude, more than any other country for healthcare yet it always ranks more as an illness profit system than a healthcare system. Yet the Republicans have already announced they want to make the system worse.

Health services in Estonia, Israel and Austria provide safer care than Britain and the US, a report has revealed.

Researchers at the Institute of Global Health Innovation at Imperial College London examined data on 38 developed countries.

The experts focused on four key patient safety indicators for their rankings: maternal mortality, treatable mortality, adverse effects of medical treatment and neonatal disorders. 

This includes causes of death that can be mostly avoided through timely and effective healthcare, including screening and treatment, and medical blunders.

Norway finished top of the league table, followed by Sweden and South Korea, while the UK placed 21st and Mexico last. 

The US fell within the bottom six, according to the rankings.  

The analysis suggests 17,356 lives could have been saved in the UK in 2019 if it had performed at the level of the top 10 per cent of countries.

This would have meant 15,773 fewer deaths classified as treatable mortality, 776 fewer neonatal deaths, 27 fewer maternal deaths and 780 fewer deaths due to adverse effects of medical treatment.

Many others have survived poor care but have […]

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