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DCWoody -> RE: 0bama0s top 10 healthcare lies (8/6/2010 6:05:55 PM)
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"so of course all press articles about the poor treatment in the NHS are entirely false and wrong."
Generally, yes.
From a polling perspective, I don't have the numbers to hand...but there're vast gaps between
How people percieve the NHS in general (poorly)
How people percieve their local NHS (well)
How people who've used their NHS recently percieve it (excellently)
This is true across the nation, there are no 'bad spots'....so where are the crappy hospitals people think of when they say the NHS is generally poor?....they're in the newspapers, in political speeches.
The last time the WHO tried to produce international comparisons of healthcare was in 2000, with the UK coming 18th out of 190, Japan being the only country deemed to provide better care that wasn't spending considerably more/GDP....and that was on late 90s data, when the NHS was in a relative trough....generally agreed that the NHS has improved since then disproportionately to general global improvements...despite GDP health spending still remaining notably lower than all our 'competitors' (for want of a better word) save Japan.
Taking into account cultural differences (which can be illustrated to some extent by comparing our overall life expectancy with it disability adjusted (IIRC~25th highest vs ~10th highest), and by glancing at Glasweigan data)....yes, I do think the NHS is excellent...and I do think most of the news media stories are bollocks.
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