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NHS hospitals beat foreign rivals

26 October 2010

UK Hospitals are better managed and have more satisfied patients than hospitals in Sweden, Germany, Canada, Italy and France, management consultants McKinsey and academics from the London School of Economics report. Only US hospitals show better management but the UK really shines when taking account of the amount spent on healthcare per head. The UK has the second lowest spend – above only Italy and spending less than half as much per head as the US. The report, Management in Healthcare: Why good practice really matters, produced two tables that show this. The first shows the management scores and the second the spend per head of population. Professor John Van Reenen, director of the Centre for Economic Performance, said: "An overriding message is that management quality varies greatly within countries, even within a publicly dominated healthcare sector like the NHS.”

This article appeared in Daily Finance on October 26, 2010
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Related publications
‘Management in Healthcare: Why Good Practice Really Matters’. Report from McKinsey & Company and the Centre for Economic Performance, October 2010. Authors: Nicholas Bloom, Rebecca Homkes, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen.
Management practices in the NHS, CentrePiece 14 (3), Winter 2010 pages 16-19, by Nick Bloom, Carol Propper, Stephan Seiler and John Van Reenen

Related links
Nicholas Bloom webpage
Rebecca Homkes webpage
Raffaella Sadun webpage
John Van Reenen webpage
Management Practices and Organisational Structures Research webpage
Productivity and Innovation Programme webpage