The United Kingdom’s health systems have long made the quality of care a high priority, pioneering many tools and policies in this area. Yet despite being a global leader in monitoring and improvement, the United Kingdom does not consistently perform...

This book summarises the main challenges and good practices to support improvements in health care quality, and to help ensure that the substantial resources devoted to health are being used effectively in supporting people to live healthier lives.

This report reviews the quality of health care in Japan, and seeks to highlight best practices, and provides a series of targeted assessments and recommendations for further improvements to quality of care.

This report reviews the quality of health care in Portugal, seeks to highlight best practices, and provides a series of targeted assessments and recommendations for further improvements to quality of care.

This report reviews the quality of health care in Italy, seeks to highlight best practices, and provides a series of targeted assessments and recommendations for further improvements to quality of care.

Australia’s health system functions remarkably well, despite operating under a complex set of institutions that make coordinating patient care difficult. Australia should adopt a national approach through an enhanced federal government role in...

This review of Turkey's health care system looks in particular at the success of its 2003 "Health Transformation Programme" and makes recommendations for improvements.

This book presents a comprehensive review of health care quality in the Czech Republic.

This book presents a comprehensive review of health care quality in Norway.

This report reviews the quality of health care in Sweden. It highlights best practices and provides recommendations for improvements.

This review of health care quality in Denmark examines policies related to quality and includes chapters covering primary and integrated care, hospital specialisation and equity.

Thie review examines what is working and what is not working with regards to health care quality in Israel.

This is the first country report in a new OECD series evaluating the quality of health care across OECD countries – whether care is safe, effective and responsive to patients’ needs.