The Daily Mail last week printed an outraged report about the state of the NHS (HERE) and inter alia compared us to the rest of the EU in bed numbers and length of a maternity stays. The figures are eye opening, particularly in the week when the NHS is under the usual winter pressure and patients are waiting for hours on trolleys in corridors.
The article headline tells its readers we trail the EU average for medics, beds and scanners but the figures for beds is the most shocking. We're well below the average (5.2) with just 2.7 beds per 1000 head of population, with only Ireland and Sweden below us. But the really shocking figure is Germany with 8.2 and Austria with 7.6 - nearly three times as many as we have. I wonder what patients waiting in a public corridor on a trolley think?
However, the Mail does not mention at all why the EU - a "failing organisation" according to them can arrange things so much better than we can.
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