Health Systems

Introduction

This series of online briefings look at the structure and performance of other health systems and ask whether or not they offer better alternatives to the current NHS, or possible solutions to some of its biggest problems.

Canada - 2013 (pdf) France - 2013 (pdf) Switzerland - 2013 (pdf)

Germany - 2013 [pdf] Netherlands - 2013 (pdf) United States - 2013 (pdf)

Articles

• UK's major NHS reforms a 'distraction'

  Elliot Bidgood, Public Service Europe, 9 April 2013

• President Obama should look to Europe, not the NHS

  James Gubb, 14 August 2009

• Obama's plans fuel need for a dose of realism in healthcare debate

  James Gubb, Yorkshire Post, 18 August 2009

• Why the NHS is the sick man of Europe

  James Gubb, February 2008

• Just how well are we? Trends in avoidable mortality from cancer and circulatory disease

  James Gubb, November 2007

• Healthcare in the balance

  Tony Hockley, 2006

• Europe has the answer to the NHS' woes

  David Green, Daily Telegraph, 2006

• International medical outcomes - how does the UK compare?

  David Green & Benedict Irvine, 2003

• Social insurance - the right way forward for health care in the United Kingdom?

  David Green & Benedict Irvine vs. Martin McKee, Anna Dixon & Elias Mossialos, BMJ 2002;325:488-490

• Health Care in France and Germany

  David Green & Benedict Irvine, 2001

Other Useful Reading

• World Health Organisation

• OECD - Health

• European Observatory on Health

• The Commonwealth Fund

• Health Consumer Powerhouse

• Measuring the Health of Nations: Updating an Earlier Analysis - Ellen Nolte & Martin McKee, Health Affairs 2008, 27(1):58-71

• The Lancet Oncology - Dr Arduino Verdecchia et al., Lancet Oncology 2007; 8:773-783