Claim: The UK spends more than the average rich country on health services.
Fact-check: Global health spending: how does the UK compare? - Full Fact
Verdict: this is correct if you compare the proportion of gdp health spending made up in the uk in 2014 with the oecd. this includes private spending and social care which aren't always included in figures on health spending in the uk.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Claire Milne
Date published: 2017-01-23T00:00:00