The current pressures on NHS services and 75th anniversary of the NHS’s founding mean this is a particularly important moment to assess how the UK’s health care system is faring compared to its peers. Every health care system has ‘something to teach and something to learn’. So, comparing the health care systems of different countries can help UK politicians and policy-makers assess the performance of the UK health care system and identify where it can improve.

Every year the End Child Poverty Coalition, together with the Centre for Research in Social Policy at Loughborough University, publishes data on the number of children living in poverty, in each Westminster Constituency and Local Authority across the UK.

Obesity is a physical condition in which a person is very overweight, with a lot of body fat.

Obesity has many causes. An over-simplified description of the most common cause is “eating too much and moving too little”. The same phrase can be expressed more accurately as an imbalance between energy consumed and energy expended.

A person’s likelihood of being overweight or obese is affected by many factors, such as socioeconomic status, age, gender, ethnicity, where they live and whether or not they have a disability or medical condition. Governments have faced a challenge developing policy that is wide enough to address all of these factors.

Interactive dashboard showing data on dentists in England, including access to dentistry, the number of dentists and a list of NHS dental practices