Comparing any international statistics on anything is pretty much meaningless. The methodology of getting the stats and the definitions of what particular things mean change in many cases when you cross a border.
I was trying once to follow up on a life expectancy figure and found that infant mortality is recorded in different ways by different countries. For instance, in the European countries that I ran into, infant morality was recorded by hospitals and calculated more as a measure of staff effectiveness and less as a simple counting function. Effect of this change?
If the baby was DOA, the stat was not recorded anywhere. The Staff could not re-animate the corpse, so the stat would not fit into their columns and was ignored. It died somewhere else. That baby dies and would therefore be a drag on the life expectancy numbers, but that 1 life at zero years did not hit the averages.
This does not indicate any devious conspiracy. It's just the analysis of the numbers as they exist and are collected by the rules of whatever bureaucracy is trying to whatever it does. Similarly, in the USA, an unborn is not counted as a death. Just the way it is.
Your chart might be perfect, but the anecdotal stories are in conflict with it. I would need to see more evidence than one blogger.
Three-week wait to see your doctor: Millions of patients are denied a prompt appointment to see their GP | Mail Online
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Millions of patients wait as long as three weeks to see their GP, a Daily Mail survey reveals today.
Only one in three manages to secure a same-day appointment, despite Government promises to make such slots routinely available. One in five cannot get a consultation within seven days.
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