British GPs ‘rate domestic healthcare services higher than foreign doctors’

NHS GPs hold their own country’s healthcare system in higher regard than doctors of other countries, it has emerged.

Research conducted by the Commonwealth Fund across 11 nations found that 51 per cent of UK GPs believe that the level of healthcare has improved over the last three years.

In Germany this figure stood at just one per cent.

Furthermore, 89 per cent of British doctors reported they received – or had the potential to receive – extra financial support, whereas ten per cent of their Swedish counterparts said the same thing.

Health secretary Andy Burnham stated: “The NHS is not perfect but it has moved from poor to good and I want to see it go from good to great on the next stage of the journey.”

This news follows the publication of a report led by Sir Bruce Keogh, medical director of the NHS, earlier this week, which found that the service is short of natal nurses.