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Member

Speaking in the House of Lords on 8 October 2024

Debate

NHS: Independent Investigation

Contribution

Those are some of the symptoms; the report is equally damning on the causes. First, a decade of underinvestment left the NHS 15 years behind the private sector on technology, with fewer diagnostic scanners per patient than almost every comparable country, including Belgium, Italy and Greece, and in 2024 mental health patients are treated in Victorian buildings with cockroach and mouse infestations, where 17 men are forced to share two showers.

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