2013 June 27 « Dr Alf's Blog

United Kingdom: stamp (Photo credit: Sem Paradeiro)

English: The logo of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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Open this link if you are interested in the latest data from OECD about UK Healthcare.

Despite what UK Chancellor, George Osborne may say, based upon independent evidence, UK healthcare compares poorly to other major countries in terms of a number of critical variables including:

Health spending in the UK as a percentage of GDP is lower than the US, Germany, France & Holland
The number of hospital beds is well below OECD average
The number of MRI scanners is less than half the OECD average

Why won’t the UK political classes face up to the reality that the NHS is way past its sell-by date and should be scrapped & replaced with a better model, like for example from Germany?

English: George Osborne MP, pictured speaking on the launch of the Conservative Party manifesto for the 2009 European Parliament elections, at Keele University. (805×1207 px, 283,711 bytes) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

This is a thoughtful and hard-hitting article from Peter Obone, published in the Telegraph. It’s an EXCELLENT READ, in my view. Check it out!

via Soon, we are likely to need a braver chancellor than this one – Telegraph.

Let me give you a flavor:

We will soon need a chancellor with the will and the guts to make the big cuts in the major spending departments. That means targeting pensioners, tackling the National Health Service, shaving foreign aid and seriously cutting the welfare bill.

I agree with Peter Obone here. George Osborne is still playing politics and is very weak on real economic leadership for the UK; look at the results!

What about you, any thoughts?