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UK low in G20 league table for healthcare

Posted on August 16, 2017 by Hippocratic Post

When it comes to the G20 league table for healthcare, the UK is bumping along somewhere near the bottom. Turkey and Mexico are the only two countries in the G20 which have fewer nurses per 100,000 people than the UK, according to latest analysis of data held by the World Health Organisation, the Organisation for […]

Lower GDP means poorer surgical outcomes

Posted on May 7, 2016 by Dr Tom Drake

Results of our new research, a collaboration between our team of scientists at the Universities of Sheffield, Birmingham and Edinburgh, has shown that patients undergoing emergency surgery in lower-income countries have a three times greater chance of dying than in higher income countries. The study monitored post-surgery death rates and mapped them against the Human […]