Failures in NHS care and 'decline' for the first time in 50 years to be highlighted in damning new report

Failures in basic care and a 'decline' of the NHS is to be highlighted in a damning new report published later this week. In some areas progress is regressing for the first time in 50 years, the document will claim.

Surgeon and former health minister Lord Ara Darzi was previously commissioned by Health Secretary Wes Streeting to conduct an independent investigation of the NHS. It is expected to highlight how improvements made in key areas have 'stalled', and in others are going backwards.

The scope of the report, published on Thursday, is expected to highlight the full extent of challenges facing the NHS, focusing on assessing patient access to healthcare, the quality of healthcare being provided and the overall performance of the health system.

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It comes after the Health Secretary declared the NHS as 'broken' and said Labour's mission was to 'turn our health service around' within a few hours of the General Election.

Mr Streeting said he wanted a ‘raw and honest’ assessment that will deliver ‘the hard truths’ about the health service.

The Telegraph has now reported that Lord Darzi's report into the 'decline' of the NHS will also examine the length of time children have been forced to wait in A&E departments and how routine services were impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic.

Surgeon and peer Lord Darzi is also to say improvements made in heart disease mortality rates have 'stalled', and even regressed since 2010 in the upcoming review.

In the report, Lord Darzi will say: “Once adjusted for age, the cardiovascular disease mortality rate for people aged under 75 dropped significantly between 2001 and 2010. But improvements