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BMA warns NHS is facing an ‘all-year crisis’

The NHS has been “run ragged” and starved of resources which has turned its annual winter crisis into an “all-year crisis,” the British Medical Association has said.

Speaking at its annual conference in Brighton, chairman Chaand Nagpaul told medics that the NHS has been “systematically and scandalously starved of resources for years.

“It lacks doctors, it lacks nurses, it lacks beds.”

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