1、INDEPENDEN T P U B L I C AT I O N BYR AC O N T EU R.NE T27/07/2022#0819FUTURE OFHEALTHCARETHE IMPACTS OF THE COST-OF-LIVING CRISISHOW GENE THERAPY IS TRANSFORMING LIVES2010WHY MEDICINES GET RECLASSIFIED25R A C O N T E U R.N E TF U T U R E O F H E A LT H C A R E0302raconteurraconteur.storiesDistribut

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4、 publication has been obtained from sources the Proprietors believe to be correct.However,no legal liability can be accepted for any errors.No part of this publication may be reproduced without the prior consent of the Publisher.Raconteur Mediaany statistics lay bare the alarming decline of the NHS

5、over the past decade,but none is starker than the backlog of patients awaiting non-emergency care.Even before the pandemic,there were about 4 million people on the waiting list an increase of about 1.5 million in eight years.By April this year,the queue had extended to 6.5 million would-be patients

6、nearly 10%of the UK pop-ulation.Faced with this alarming figure,ministers are making a big play of the Covid effect.That has had a big impact,but the parlous state of the NHS was writ large well before anyone in government had heard the term Sars-CoV-2.In a prescient 2012 report,the Nuffield Trust p