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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Andy Burnham welcomed the findings at a speech in Washington, and said it showed that the overhaul of the health service had paid off GPs rate improvements to the quality of patient care in the UK more highly than doctors in 10 other industrialised countries rate their health services, according to an international comparative study released today. Coincidentally, British primary...
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Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The NHS has been ranked as having one of the best primary health care systems in the world in a survey by the US think tank the Commonwealth Fund, published today. In a survey of more than 10,000 primary care physicians in 11 developed countries, the NHS was rated top in a number of key areas [...]
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Medical News Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
The NHS has been ranked as having one of the best primary health care systems in the world in a survey by the leading US think tank the Commonwealth Fund, published today.
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
GPs rate improvements to the quality of patient care more highly than doctors in 10 other industrialised countries, according to an international study released today. Coincidentally, British primary care physicians also emerge as those most likely to be financially rewarded for meeting medical targets or care goals. The study of health services in 11 nations, carried out by the US-based Commonwealth...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
... fist of phase one. To say there was no great enthusiasm for the project in the Department of Health (DH), the GSCC's sponsor in Whitehall, would put it mildly. In an angry open letter to health secretary Andy Burnham, written a couple of weeks ago, a leading care sector figure has attacked the department's "stop-go dithering" on when registration would be extended...
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Express & Star (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
... and former staff, who received a written invitation to take part in the inquiry, 36 responded.Health Secretary Andy Burnham set up the inquiry following a Healthcare Commission report in March which said between 400 and 1,200 people could have died needlessly because of poor care.Counsel to the inquiry Keith Morton said: “It is important to recognise that over the period...
