Euro Health Consumer Index (EHCI) was a comparison of European health care systems based on waiting times, results, and generosity.
It did not claim to measure which European state had the best healthcare system, but it did produce specialist Indexes on Diabetes, Cardiac Care, HIV, Headache and Hepatitis.
In the 2015 results, the same performance would have given the 13th position among 35 countries because of the widespread improvements in standards.
[2] While no bias in favour of any health system was alleged, the index was criticised in the British Medical Journal by Martin McKee and others from the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies in February 2016.
Points they made included:[3] A survey by the Centre for Population Change in 2019 produced results consistent with the index.