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Is the UK spending more than we thought on healthcare (and much less on social care)?

BMJ 2016; 353 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.i3094 (Published 06 June 2016) Cite this as: BMJ 2016;353:i3094

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Re: Is the UK spending more than we thought on healthcare (and much less on social care)?

Dear John,

I remember reading about the re-ranking of UK in OECD according to the 9.8% figure a year or so ago. As UK then moved substantially up the rankings, it was noted (I think by you) that many of the other countries had still to have their spending re-calculated similarly according to this new formula.

Has that re-calculation for the other countries now happened, such that there is now coherence in comparing the relative figures?

Thanks.

Competing interests: No competing interests

19 August 2017
Nick Mann
GP
Well St Surgery