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In an article published in the\u00a0British Medical Journal<\/a>, I discuss the health outcomes achieved by the NHS in the UK and how these compare with other European countries. Health outcomes in the UK have improved substantially since the NHS was established in 1948. The NHS also performs well in many international comparisons on measures such as efficiency, equity, and access.<\/p>\n

Despite these achievements, however, problems with health outcomes remain. Moreover, other European countries have also improved their health outcomes in recent decades, often at a faster rate than the UK. Consequently, the UK now lags behind many other European countries in key health outcomes in areas such as child health and cancer survival.<\/p>\n

I conclude that new health policies in the UK should help the NHS to focus on improving health outcomes and that politically expedient schemes that are not evidence-based \u2013 such as extended opening hours in primary care \u2013 should be abandoned. Continued progress is also needed on wider determinants of health such as poverty, housing, education, employment, and the environment.<\/p>\n

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