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Healthcare relies heavily on acronyms and jargon. We spell out some of the most common 111 : the new non-emergency number for health in England, replacing NHS Direct's telephone advice line (although NHS Direct hopes to run it in many locations) and out of hours GP helplines, and already live in County Durham and Darlington, Nottingham City, Lincolnshire and Luton. The government hopes to have it available across the country by April 2013. Acute trust : in England, the organisations that run secondary and emergency care, through large hospitals and specialist centres. Agenda for Change : the...

Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRICs) are among the world's fastest growing economies, but provide their citizens with widely variable healthcare While rich developed countries including Britain worry about how to pay for the increasing costs of their existing healthcare systems, newly powerful economies have a different problem: building medical services to serve the expectations of their increasingly wealthy populations. The 'BRICs' – Brazil, Russia, India and China – were bracketed together by Goldman Sachs economist Jim O'Neill a decade ago as four of the world's fastest...

Australia, Canada and Ireland have universal healthcare systems, although run on different lines to Britain's NHS. And then there is the USA As David Cameron makes personal pledges on the future of the NHS, after fierce opposition to the government's NHS reform plans, the coalition would do well to examine other countries' experiences of running a public, universal health service. European countries, explored in a previous article, tend to use a mix of public and private provision, with safety nets for those who can't afford the latter. Australia and Canada have comprehensive coverage...