HC Deb 16 July 2002 vol 389 cc255-6W
Stephen Hesford

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what recent assessment he has made of the cost-effectiveness of health care systems in other countries funded by charges and private medical insurance. [69233]

Mr. Boateng

Further to the answer given by my predecessor (Mr. Andrew Smith) on 15 April 2002,Official Report, column 772W, in April Derek Wanless

published a study commissioned by his review on international health care systems, considering health systems in individual countries around the world.

A copy of this study, prepared by the European Observatory on Health Care Systems, is available in the Library and can be accessed from the Treasury's website at: http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/mediastore/otherfiles/observatory_report.pdf.