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The NHS has not hit key targets — like four-hour emergency room waits and 62-day waits between initial referral and first cancer treatment — since 2015. As of July, over 7.6 million people were waiting for NHS services in England, including 290,000 who had been waiting more than a year. Last year, more than 100,000 infants waited over six hours to receive care in British emergency rooms. Nearly 10% of patients waited 12 hours or more to be seen in emergency rooms. All told, these delays lead to an estimated 14,000 deaths each year — which, as Lord Darzi notes, is “more than double all British armed forces’ combat deaths since the health service was founded in 1948.”