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Scots health service is damned as worst in UK

A damning report today says Scotland has the worst-performing health service in the UK despite being better funded than England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

It finds that while Scotland has the highest levels of poor health, the country has more hospital doctors, GPs, and nurses per head of population, but productivity is the worst and inpatient admissions are the lowest.