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Campaigners call for end of NHS outsourcing as Britain falls among worst countries for hospital wait times
CAMPAIGNERS urged Labour to halt NHS outsourcing and urgently invest in the service and its staff today after a report ranked Britain’s hospital care among the worst in high-income nations.
The Health Foundation revealed that long hospital waits left Britain among the “poorest-performing” in a survey of 10 countries.
It found that 11 per cent of people were waiting a year or more for a specialist appointment, while 19 per cent were waiting the same amount of time for non-emergency surgery. Only Canada reported similar figures.
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