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Letters: NHS England’s abolition makes us reflect on disastrous 2012 reforms, writes Dr Michael Cohen, while Jeremy Wainman decries the dismantling of a skilled workforce, Nigel Turner explains the reorganisation cycle, and Martin Shaw invites the health secretary to visit his local hospital

Former Tory health minister’s 2012 scheme marked the biggest reorganisation in NHS history

Critics say practice risks perception that members of House of Lords are exploiting role for personal gain

Lord Darzi’s damning report on the crisis facing our health service will be the benchmark from which improvements will be judged, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

Finally, a politician acknowledges the reality that the health service is on its knees, but also that there is no easy fix

Keir Starmer says patients ‘have every right to be angry’ and that some health service failures ‘are life and death’

Britain’s pandemic response was among the worst and the NHS had been ‘seriously weakened’, says leading surgeon

A Labour backbencher has revealed the reply he received from a Conservative Health Secretary after raising fears about a cut in training places for budding nurses

In today’s newsletter: Archie Bland breaks down a report into how Conservative reforms were linked with an increase in deaths from treatable causes