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

Britain's pandemic response was among the worst and the NHS had been seriously weakened', says leading surgeon

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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.