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UK health system is top on ‘efficiency’, says report

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The UK’s health care system is the most efficient, says a study of seven industrialised countries.

The Commonwealth Fund report looked at five areas of performance – quality, efficiency, access to care, equity and healthy lives.

The US came last in the overall rankings, which also included data from Australia, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands and New Zealand.

But there is room for improvement in every country, says the report.

The report, which is an update to three earlier editions, includes patients and doctors’ ratings of their experiences in their own health care systems.

More than 27,000 patients and primary care doctors were surveyed across all seven countries as part of the study, starting in 2007.

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