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<p>Cancer surgeon says the service’s ‘vital signs are strong’ but its workforce must be re-energised to raise productivity</p><p>Even factoring in the many manifestations over recent years of the NHS’s deep crisis, some of Lord Ara Darzi’s findings in his verdict on the state of the service are arresting. A&E is in such “an awful state” that <a href="Long NHS delays in England leading to thousands of unnecessary deaths, inquiry finds">thousands of people die every year</a> because they aren’t seen there fast enough.</p><p>“Starving” the service of vital capital funding has left “crumbling buildings, mental health patients being accommodated in Victorian-era cells infested with vermin with 17 men sharing two showers, and parts of the NHS operating in decrepit portable buildings”. Efforts to improve early diagnosis of cancer saw “no progress whatsoever made … between 2013 and 2021”, despite many lives depending on that.</p> <a href="Darzi review says the NHS is in a critical condition but sets out a treatment plan">Continue reading...</a>

Cancer surgeon says the service’s ‘vital signs are strong’ but its workforce must be re-energised to raise productivity

Even factoring in the many manifestations over recent years of the NHS’s deep crisis, some of Lord Ara Darzi’s findings in his verdict on the state of the service are arresting. A&E is in such “an awful state” that thousands of people die every year because they aren’t seen there fast enough.

“Starving” the service of vital capital funding has left “crumbling buildings, mental health patients being accommodated in Victorian-era cells infested with vermin with 17 men sharing two showers, and parts of the NHS operating in decrepit portable buildings”. Efforts to improve early diagnosis of cancer saw “no progress whatsoever made … between 2013 and 2021”, despite many lives depending on that.

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