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Lack of investment in NHS may be hindering recovery of cancer services from Covid

But an analysis by the Nuffield Trust, a London-based think-tank, found that countries such as Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark — similar to England in the burden of Covid cases — looked to have greater success in maintaining referral and treatment services during some high pressure periods of the pandemic.

The per capita sums the three EU countries devote to healthcare place them respectively fourth, fifth and ninth among OECD nations, compared with the UK’s 14th place. This raises questions over the extent to which patients are paying the price for years in which the NHS’s budget has failed to keep pace with demand.

Denmark, for example, has almost 40 CT scanners per million people, and Germany about 35, while the UK has fewer than 10.

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