Progress in heart disease treatment at risk after Tories’ NHS failures, say experts

Report into state of health service in England expresses fears that 50 years of progress is ‘beginning to reverse’

Decades of progress in tackling heart disease and strokes risks unravelling in part because of NHS failures under the last government, a report into the state of the health service in Englandwill argue.

The statistics on cardiovascular disease from the report by the eminent surgeon and Labour peer Ara Darzi, were released by the health department before its launch on Thursday.