these concerns abour wafting times led to the adoption of a health care guaiantee legislation in that wovided guidelines on the maximum waiting times for a range of primary care and specialised care services in substantial progress was achieved over the past decade in reducing mortality rates for people admitted to hospital for these lifethreatening conditions with the day mortality rate now the lowest among eu countries with available data for ischaemic stroke figure this reflects the streamlining of emergency care processes and the provision of better treatments notably a greater use of thrombolysis for ischaemic strokes due to early diagnosis and effective treatments people in finland diagnosed with various types of cancer such as breast cervical colon and rectal cancer have higher survival rates than in most eu countries oecd and overall mortality from cancer is among the lowest in the eu