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# Resources - NHS international comparisons and opinion polls
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/resources-nhs-international-comparisons-and-opinion-polls/
- Published: 2013-12-10T12:12:54.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:00:21.000Z
- Description: This section of OurNHS's new 'Resource guide' points you to some international comparisons and some opinion polls of both public and staff views on the NHS 'reforms'.
- Author: Caroline Molloy
- Tags: Resources , #Migrated, #en, #Import 2026-04-09 16:46

**The NHS is - or was - one of the most efficient systems in the world**

[Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine report.](http://www.theguardian.com/society/2011/aug/07/nhs-among-most-efficient-health-services?ref=opendemocracy.net)

[‘The Unreported NHS’](http://www.nhscampaign.org/about%5Fthe%5Ffed/briefings-and-documents/the-unreported-nhs-3.html?ref=opendemocracy.net) \- international comparisons on spend and satisfaction compiled by the NHS Supporters Federation.

[ **'How sick are the world's health systems?**](http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/oct/29/how-sick-are-worlds-healthcare-systems-nhs-china-india-us-germany?CMP=twt%5Fgu&ref=opendemocracy.net)**' - interesting comparison in Guardian of 8 systems - problems in the German and Indian systems that pro-private sector people often invoke.**

**What do the public think of the NHS ‘reforms’?** 

[YouGov / Sunday Times poll February 2012](http://cdn.yougov.com/cumulus%5Fuploads/document/eqllmvsaav/YG-Archives-Pol-ST-results-24-260212.pdf?ref=opendemocracy.net) \- Fewer than one person in five thinks that the government reforms and increasing competition in the NHS will make services better. 

**What do NHS staff think of the NHS ‘reforms’?**

[‘NHS not safe with coalition, poll reveals’](http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/nhs-not-safe-with-coalition-poll-reveals-8692594.html?ref=opendemocracy.net) \- a 38 degrees survey of health staff from July 2013\. 

[‘What GPs really think about CCGs’](http://www.gponline.com/News/article/1178097/GPs-really-think-CCGs/?ref=opendemocracy.net) \- GPOnline survey - As CCGs went live, 73% percent of GPs think they have been set up to take the blame for increasing rationing of healthcare.

[’71% of NHS staff surveyed think Lansley is doing a bad job’](http://blog.38degrees.org.uk/2012/01/30/yougov-poll-71-of-nhs-staff-surveyed-think-lansley-doing-bad-job/?ref=opendemocracy.net) \- nice 38 degrees visual representation of a poll during the passage of the Health & Social Care Act.