Funding and performance of healthcare systems in the four countries of the UK before and after devolution

Funding and performance of healthcare systems in the four countries of the UK before and after devolution examines the impact of political devolution in 1999, which resulted in four National Health Services in the UK.

The health services of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are all funded by the UK taxpayer, but have developed different systems of governance and different methods of providing health care.

The slides shown here provide longitudinal cross-country comparisons, supplemented with a cross-sectional analysis of the three devolved countries and English regions for 2006. The additional analysis is included because some of the national averages reported for England are distorted by the unrepresentative nature of London.

The North East of England is more like the three devolved countries (in terms of its size and indicators of socio-economic, demographic and morbidity characteristics), and therefore some of the analysis focuses specifically on the differences between the North East region and the three devolved countries.