Waiting times for NHS cancer treatment are at worst ever level

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Record 20,000 patients a month are suffering delays in seeing a consultant or starting therapies

 

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Wait until we run out of essential supplies...

With a systematic reduction in resources and an increase in demand it was always going to be so.

In England

I work in Oncology and patients are always seen within 2 weeks

But.. But... It's the envy of the world

My mum still has a phone like that.

And waiting times for the rich elite don't exist.

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