We can consider what our NHS staff have achieved in improving our nation’s health in recent times: we have seen reductions in deaths from cancer, stroke and coronary heart disease since 2007 by 5, 24 and 20 per cent respectively; the standardised mortality rate for coronary heart disease has reduced by 43.2 per cent since 2002 and that for strokes has reduced by 41.8 per cent; the incidence rate for coronary heart disease has decreased by 28.9 per cent over the past decade and that for stroke by 21.7 per cent; and the overall death rate for cancer fell by 12 per cent between 2001 and 2011.Those are things to celebrate...