I'd be a bit wary of comparing national healthcare systems based on one or two experiences and if you do, you should compare Chase Farm with whatever the local hospital is - the one where your father-in-law couldn't get his eyes done. But if you look at things like doctors per capita, it doesn't look so great. Britain has something like 6 times as many doctors per person and within Thailand there are enormous regional differences. The North, for example, has twice as many doctors per person as Isaan but Bangkok has almost 40% of all the doctors in the country. And I don't think it's entirely coincidence that it's the Medical Faculty at Chula that is the yellowest of the yellow.