Hospitals across the UK are struggling to meet targets accident and emergency, cancer care, and planned operations, due to chronic underfunding.
Life expectancy in England is no longer improving, and austerity could be to blame, according to a leading health expert.
The Conservative manifesto has has come under attack for its lack of costing analysis, but also more specifically for its attack on Britain’s OAPs with cuts to winter fuel allowance and the introduction of a so-called “dementia tax”.
An additional 39,074 people died in 2015, compared with the previous year. And the latest data shows that the trend continues.
An influential group of MPs have accused the government of abusing statistics in its claim that the NHS will be allocated an extra £10bn in funding over the next five years.