Tory health reforms left UK open to Covid calamity, says top doctor’s report

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Britain’s pandemic response was among the worst and the NHS had been ‘seriously weakened’, says leading surgeon • Three reports lay bare scale of NHS malaise, but will Reeves fund a remedy?Britain was hit far harder by the Covid-19 pandemic than other developed countries because the NHS had been “seriously weakened” by disastrous government policies over the preceding decade, a wide-ranging report will conclude this week.An assessment of the NHS by the world-renowned surgeon Prof Ara Darzi, commissioned in July by the health secretary, Wes Streeting, will find that the health service reduced its “routine healthcare activity by a far greater percentage than other health systems” in many key areas during the Covid crisis. Continue reading…

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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/society/article/2024/sep/07/tory-health-reforms-left-uk-open-to-covid-calamity-says-top-doctors-report

Author : Toby Helm, Political editor, and James Tapper

Publish date : 2024-09-07 23:30:09

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