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People in the UK face longer waits for non-emergency surgery and struggle to see GPs out-of-hours compared to other western countries, a survey suggests.
But they are least likely to have problems with medical bills and insurance, the poll of over 12,000 patients in seven countries showed.
The Health Foundation think-tank, which carried out the research, said the challenges were clear.
The government said care was improving, but it was aiming to be the best.
Some 55% of UK patients said they had had difficulty getting access to GP care on weekends and nights.
This was worse than Germany, the Netherlands and New Zealand and comes amid mounting criticism of the arrangements within the NHS.
A new GP contract, which started in 2004, allowed family doctors to opt out of providing out-of-hours care. ....
The Canadains wait longer, but are not unhappy about it:
CTV.ca are reporting: Canadian patients wait, but are mostly satisfied
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Canadians wait longer for elective surgery than residents of most other industrialized nations, finds a new survey from the Commonwealth Fund.
The annual look at seven industrialized countries found Canadians were more likely than patients in other countries to have to wait for care but rarely had to forgo medical care because of cost, unlike other countries such as the U.S.
The survey was conducted earlier this year, with Harris Interactive researchers interviewing patients by phone in Australia, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States, as well as 3,000 Canadian participants.
The survey found public perceptions in Canada and New Zealand about their health-care systems have grown steadily more positive in the past decade. Their positive views are now comparable to views in Australia and the United Kingdom.
U.S. adults have some of the most negative views about their system of any of the countries surveyed.
Americans also spend double what people in other industrialized countries do on health care, but have more trouble seeing doctors and go without treatment more often, the survey found.
Patients in the Netherlands struggle the most with paperwork, while German and U.S. adults report the most rapid access to timely elective surgery.
No country emerged as a "winner," Karen Davis, the Commonwealth Fund's president, told a media briefing Wednesday.
"Every country does well on some things, doesn't do well on other things," she said. "What we really need to do is not deny we have problems, but ... look at the countries that have good performance on those dimensions and try to learn from them."....
'Serious flaws' in UK health care
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