Lessons Britain’s Health Service Could Learn From Third World

John Elkington

January 8, 2010

An interesting article on what Britain’s National Health Service could learn from health care innovation in developing countries can be found here. The basic problem in all richer countries, argues (Lord) Nigel Crisp, is that diseases have changes bit health services haven’t. Asked by Tony Blair to to review how best to use UK health expertise to help developing countries, Crisp began to realise that the process could equally well run in the opposite direction.