British Healthcare: 'Cruel' to Patients

Thursday, August 27, 2009 2:31 PM

By: Dan Weil

Some healthcare experts in the United States have cited the United Kingdom’s government-run health service as a model we should emulate.

But according to a new study from The (U.K.) Patients Association, as many as 1 million National Health Service (NHS) patients have received terrible care.

The study shows that 2 percent of patients believe they receive inadequate care at hospitals. “If this was extrapolated to the whole of the NHS from 2002 to 2008, it would equate to over 1 million patients,â€