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    NHS struggle to meet £20bn savings target hits elderly hardest
    Knee and hip replacement operations and cataract removals fall to lowest level for five years as patients left longer in pain

    The NHS need to meet its £20bn savings target meant patients were being left in pain and discomfort, said Labour. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA
    Patients are being denied knee replacements and cataract removals as the NHS struggles to meet its £20bn savings target, official data has revealed.

    The number of those operations, as well as hip replacements, has fallen to its lowest level for five years, despite England's elderly population - which has most need for those procedures - having risen over the same period.

    Surgeons, charities and Labour claimed declining access to three of the most common surgical procedures was leaving patients in pain and discomfort and was evidence of a widening "postcode lottery" in the availability of treatment.

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