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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rebecca Thomas

NHS cancer services ‘suffered years of decline’ before pandemic with ‘no meaningful plan’ for £36bn funding

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Cancer services and planned care in the NHS have suffered ‘years of decline’ under the government’s watch and there is no ‘meaningful’ plan to spend promised cash, MPs have warned.

Services were deteriorating for years before the pandemic as the Department of Health and Social Care and the NHS failed to increase capacity to meet the growing demand, a damning report claims.

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