Published 11.50am UK time.

‘Stay home, protect the NHS, save lives’, we were told. But has this rhetoric actually done more to harm lives than to save them?

New analysis reveals that nearly 11,000 women could be living with undiagnosed breast cancer. The charity Breast Cancer Now has said that ‘the tragic cost of almost 11,000 missing breast cancer diagnoses is that in the worst cases, women could die from the disease’.

As Doctor Karol Sikora wrote last November, ‘fear and scaremongering is being used to keep people out of hospital’. The effects of this on our national health are dire.

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