Britons’ earlier deaths linked to NHS underinvestment – study

Major King's Fund report finds Britons more likely to die of biggest killer diseases than in many other richer countries

NHS's mounting failures and political neglect laid bare in sobering study

Britons die sooner from cancer and heart disease than people in many other rich countries, partly because of the NHS's lack of beds, staff and scanners, a study has found.

The UK underperforms significantly" on tackling its biggest killer diseases, in part because the NHS has been weakened by years of underinvestment, according to the report from the King's Fund health thinktank. It performs poorly" as judged by the number of avoidable deaths resulting from disease and injury and also by fatalities that could have been prevented had patients received better or quicker treatment.