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The Swiss health care system – while certainly not cheap at €4,270 per head – receives international acclaim for achieving both universal coverage and a very high quality of care for all, without the constrained resources that tend to characterise government-controlled systems such as the NHS. Waiting times for treatment are short or non-existent and the uptake of new technology and drugs is high. For example, whereas only three NHS centres provide the latest intensity-modulated radiotherapy routinely to significant numbers of cancer patients, the Swiss do this as standard. Patient satisfaction is, perhaps unsurprisingly, excellent. As this Civitas study shows, there is much the NHS could learn.