The UK’s National Health Service (NHS) is lagging behind many comparable countries in terms of health outcomes, a study has found.
While the taxpayer-funded health care system does well in shielding the ill from the financial impact, it performs worse in a number of important outcomes such as life expectancy and avoidable deaths, according to the research (pdf), published on June 26 by The King’s Fund.
Among a basket of 19 higher-income industrialised countries, British females’ life expectancy at birth was the second-lowest, ahead of only the United States, between 2018 and 2020, the study shows.
British females’ life expectancy was between 82 to 84 years, while Japanese females were expected to live to more than 87….