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The people who measure these things would probably disagree with you. A small, random, selection: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2007/system-failure-priv

• lotsofmangos 12y ago
  One computer system overspend, the opinion of Jeremy Hunt, and a report saying half a percent of the budget could be saved by being more careful when buying stuff like office supplies. I note that none of those things is a comparison of NHS with other health systems. These are though: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8877412/NHS-among-best-health-care-systems-in-the-world.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8877412/NHS-amo... http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/06/16/once-again-u-s-has-most-expensive-least-effective-health-care-system-in-survey/# http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2014/06... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10375877 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10375877 http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/42050/1/How_the_NHS_measures_up_to_other_health_systems_%28LSERO%29.pdf http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/42050/1/How_the_NHS_measures_up_to_... http://shr.sagepub.com/content/2/7/60.abstract http://shr.sagepub.com/content/2/7/60.abstract The worst recent estimate I could find was Bloomberg, who had the UK as 10th out of 51 countries studied, with the US coming in at 41st. http://www.bloomberg.com/visual-data/best-and-worst/most-efficient-health-care-2014-countries http://www.bloomberg.com/visual-data/best-and-worst/most-eff...