“The UK has been ranked lower than most comparable Western countries, including the USA, Australia, New Zealand, France and Germany, in the 2021 Hologic Global Women’s Health Index published today.”
In fairness, Saudi Arabia isn’t some backwater. You’re either on your company’s private hospital network (excellent) or in a public hospital (also very good).
I lived there for around 5 years and had a load of encounters with family doctor and hospital appointments and even a couple of A&E visits. All way better than anything I experienced from the NHS in the decade before or year after.
It’s probably the thing I miss the most from there after coming back to the UK
Something tells me there’s going to be differences between migrant worker maid vs the woman she works for. But I might be wrong. But in uk there’s still differences in health care between upper middle class women and working class women too
Germany 7th?
I mean, not that I think that our healthcare is bad, by no means, but we have a two tiered system. In public healthcare you’re fine with seeing a general practioner and in emergencies, but once you need to get to specific doctors, you better be insured in private healthcare.
My mother had to wait for two months to see a specalists for her hurting knee and I know several people who needed a specalist and had to wait for months to get an appointment (and some people with private insurance who have no issues at all in that regard).
Like, it’s not apocalyptic, as I said, in emergencies you get help at once, but surely there are European countries that do better than we do in our two-tier system.
Saudi has very good healthcare, for everyone.
It’s like saying “Britain has worse banking than Germany, for redheads”.
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“The UK has been ranked lower than most comparable Western countries, including the USA, Australia, New Zealand, France and Germany, in the 2021 Hologic Global Women’s Health Index published today.”
UK ranked 30th. Ireland 34th, France 27th
Surprised to see Canada at 48th.
A for profit company funds a study to make NHS look bad? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hologic
In fairness, Saudi Arabia isn’t some backwater. You’re either on your company’s private hospital network (excellent) or in a public hospital (also very good).
I lived there for around 5 years and had a load of encounters with family doctor and hospital appointments and even a couple of A&E visits. All way better than anything I experienced from the NHS in the decade before or year after.
It’s probably the thing I miss the most from there after coming back to the UK
Something tells me there’s going to be differences between migrant worker maid vs the woman she works for. But I might be wrong. But in uk there’s still differences in health care between upper middle class women and working class women too
Germany 7th?
I mean, not that I think that our healthcare is bad, by no means, but we have a two tiered system. In public healthcare you’re fine with seeing a general practioner and in emergencies, but once you need to get to specific doctors, you better be insured in private healthcare.
My mother had to wait for two months to see a specalists for her hurting knee and I know several people who needed a specalist and had to wait for months to get an appointment (and some people with private insurance who have no issues at all in that regard).
Like, it’s not apocalyptic, as I said, in emergencies you get help at once, but surely there are European countries that do better than we do in our two-tier system.
Saudi has very good healthcare, for everyone.
It’s like saying “Britain has worse banking than Germany, for redheads”.