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England's 'cruel' IVF postcode lottery is today laid bare by MailOnline's interactive map.Under current official guidelines, women under the age of 40 struggling to have a child should get three cycles of the fertility treatment on the…

A postcode lottery in kidney cancer care is costing hundreds of lives every year, an NHS report has revealed.In some rural parts of England, patients with the disease are nearly half as likely to receive life-saving drugs as those in the…

Alarm over postcode lottery of GP surgery lung tests due 'scandalous' shortage which leaves thousands undiagnosed, charity warnsPostcode lottery for lung disease tests is leaving thousands undiagnosedCharity Asthma + Lung UK…

A ‘postcode lottery’ in prostate cancer care is costing thousands of lives a year, a charity has warned.Men living in parts of the North East are almost six times more likely to be diagnosed after their cancer has spread than in the…

Prostate cancer's 'postcode lottery': Map reveals how a THIRD of men in parts of Britain are only diagnosed once disease has spreadProportion of men diagnosed with stage 4 prostate cancer varies by region Data suggests men from…

Cancer patients suffering from lymphoedema - where limbs to swell to double their usual size - which affects 400,000 people in the UK face NHS postcode lottery for life-changing treatments, senior medics warnCancer patients…

Hip patients are in deadly postcode lottery for care which leaves some twice as likely to die than othersEach year more than 70,000 people are sent to a UK hospital for a hip fracture They are facing postcode lottereis and can…

England's GP access postcode lottery was laid bare today by official data showing just half of appointments are face-to-face in parts of the country.NHS Digital figures show 65 per cent of consultations were made in-person across England in…

Tired of waiting months for an operation? New website aims to beat the postcode lottery by showing other nearby hospitals where patients can have surgerySome Britons are left in pain for up to three times longer for hip and…

More than 325,000 people are living with dementia in England - but have not been diagnosedin 2020 to 2021 430,000 had a formal dementia diagnosis but four in ten did not The Midlands had the highest undiagnosed rates of…