A triumph of British cardiovascular medicine:'... and the last can be first...'

摘要

In troubled times, in a sea of uncertainty, it is easy to forget that the UK remains the envy of the world in one aspect at least: the delivery of a national health service (NHS). The structure and organisation of UK general practice; the existence and authority of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) - with national guidance and local dissemination and structured implementation - remain the envy of the world. While our European neighbours stand by holding each other's coats as Brexit rumbles on, we forget that each of these nations gazes at our health service and wishes they had one just like ours.