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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Denis Campbell Health policy editor

Austerity has led to NHS quality of care declining in key areas, study finds

Woman lying in hospital bed.
Austerity ushered in ‘really concerning deterioration across the board’ in the overall quality of NHS care. Photograph: Medicimage/UIG/Rex

The quality of care that the NHS provides has got worse in many key areas and patients’ long waits to access treatment could become even more common, research has found.

The coalition government’s austerity programme in the early 2010s led to the heath service no longer being able to meet key waiting time targets, the Nuffield Trust and Health Foundation said.

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