As per an international audit, the UK is leaving behind any other country from all over Europe when it comes to survival rates from heart bypass surgeries. All across Europe almost 2.4 percent patients die on an average after a bypass surgery.

This figure was compared with a 2.2 percent rate in Scotland and 1.8 percent in England with only 1.1 percent in Wales as per the study.

The data was observed by the European Association for Cardiothoracic Surgery from over a million surgeries done in 23 countries. A renowned heart surgeon is of the opinion that the decision to gather information on the performance of hospitals has helped in effectively reducing the rate of mortality by almost 50 percent in the last five years.

This study is the first of its kind which compares the heart surgeries all over Europe and the NHS was one of the most crucial participants and ended up in contributing a big chunk of the total data used.

Some European countries did not take part in the study which includes Netherlands, Denmark, France, Czech Republic and Austria.