> In short, the NHS is more correctly seen as nationalised rather than socialised medicine, achieving the first three levels of a socialist health service ident

> In short, the NHS is more correctly seen as nationalised rather than socialised medicine, achieving the first three levels of a socialist health service identified here. It can be said to have socialist principles in the limited distributional sense and has some socialist means to achieve these. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10170226/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10170226/ The study is from 1997, and the NHS has definitely changed in the 25 years since, arguably becoming more privatised since the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (among other decisions).