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How does the UK NHS compare with European standards?
— a review of EU health care systems using hierarchical cluster analysis | | Author(s) | John Nixon |
| Corporate Author | Centre for Health Economics, University of York |
| Publisher | University of York, York, 2000 |
| Pages | 18 pp (Centre for Health Economics Discussion paper 182) |
| Source | The Publications Office, Centre for Health Economics, University of York, York YO10 5DD. |
| Keywords | Health services ; National Health Service ; Cluster analysis ; Comparison ; Europe. |
| Annotation | Tony Blair, the UK Prime Minister, has implicitly acknowledged that the National Health Service (NHS) does not have sufficient supply capacity to meet all its demands. In this study, hierarchical cluster analysis, in conjunction with scatter plots, was used first to formulate country-cluster groups for the following pairs of OECD Health Data variables: health expenditure as share of gross domestic product (GDP) and per capita health expenditure; infant mortality and life expectancy (males and females); number of physicians and number of beds per head of population; and average length of in-patient stay and in-patient admission rate. A composite cluster analysis was also performed using all nine variables. The solutions reveal a strong association between the cluster country-membership and health care mode of organisation, namely social insurance or NHS. Although the UK achieves comparable outcomes, its health care system is comparatively underfunded and under-resourced. However, the type of health care system used needs to be taken into account when making cross-European comparisons. These findings suggest that there is justification in seeking to increase UK health spending. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-010130221 B |
| Classmark | L: L4: 3YB: 48: 74 |
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