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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Peter Walker Senior political correspondent

Progress in heart disease treatment at risk after Tories’ NHS failures, say experts

An NHS hospital ward
An NHS hospital ward. The report will also set out significant regional disparities over treatment for cardiovascular disease. Photograph: Jeff Moore/PA

Decades of progress in tackling heart disease and strokes risks unravelling in part because of NHS failures under the last government, a report into the state of the health service in Englandwill argue.

The statistics on cardiovascular disease from the report by the eminent surgeon and Labour peer Ara Darzi, were released by the health department before its launch on Thursday.

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