The NHS in England provides better value for money than elsewhere in the UK, a research group’s study suggests.
The Nuffield Trust found there were fewer health staff per head in England, but higher levels of activity and productivity, as well as shorter waits.
The differences were most marked when England was compared with Scotland, but there was nothing to suggest major variations in quality of care.
The independent research group compared a range of factors over a 10-year period to 2006-7.
It found that the NHS in England spends less and has fewer doctors, nurses and managers per head of population than the health services in the devolved nations, but is still doing more.
Productivity levels fell across the UK during the period - something which is already well documented.
But those falls tended to be most marked in Scotland with the NHS there providing the fewest outpatient appointments, inpatient admissions and day case treatments per doctor of all the parts of the UK.
Read more at BBC Health.
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