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MPs blame Tories for years of rising NHS waiting times

THE Tory government has “overseen years of decline in cancer and waiting-times targets” in the NHS, a cross-party panel of MPs has said in a damning report.

The Commons public accounts committee warned that the waiting list for treatment of 6.1 million people is likely to grow for the next few years and that performance against targets will be “poor.”

It found that the NHS has not met the 18-week target for people to receive planned treatment in England since February 2016, while the number of people waiting more than a year or two has grown.

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