You might find it hard to believe, but it's significantly worse in the UK. We have significantly fewer doctors, nurses, hospital beds per capita, and pay less into healthcare.
That's surely not even cost-effective in the short term. It would be cheaper to pay to get them back working again.
The NHS is quite efficient I think compared to comparable health systems but it's massively under-resourced.
So it's all relative. It might not be "stellar" from your perspective, but France and Germany have probably among the best health systems in the world. The UK's used to be quite good only a few years ago.
Long term sick unable to work numbers have increased by a third in the last ~3 years: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/feb/17/record-long...
That's surely not even cost-effective in the short term. It would be cheaper to pay to get them back working again.
The NHS is quite efficient I think compared to comparable health systems but it's massively under-resourced.
So it's all relative. It might not be "stellar" from your perspective, but France and Germany have probably among the best health systems in the world. The UK's used to be quite good only a few years ago.