NAO reports on healthcare across the UK

The National Audit Office (NAO) has highlighted key trends and variations in the delivery of healthcare across the UK. There are considerable variations across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland in areas such as health outcomes, spending, staffing and quality. Spending on health services in the UK more than doubled in cash terms in the last decade. The rate of increase has been broadly similar in all four nations but spending per person continues to vary. In 2010-11, despite devoting a higher proportion of total public spending to health, England spent the least on health per person.