NHS criticised over plans to tell cancer patients they've got the disease via TEXT

THE NHS has been criticised over plans to tell cancer patients they've got the disease via TEXT - in a bid to speed up treatment.

But critics have blasted the move as "insensitive" and warn it could lead to "disastrous delays" for older people who "aren't as tech-savvy". She had undergone a chest X-ray which was sent to two hospital departments and her GP, but they went unread. "An over-reliance on text messages could actually lead to disastrous delays if older people are not habitual users."Roy LilleyStage 4 bowel cancer patient and Sun Online columnist Deborah James said: "Being told I had cancer is one of the worst things I have ever had to face, my life changed that day."I can't even begin to imagine how much worse it would feel to receive the news by text.

It said: "The notification would be sent within an agreed timeframe to ensure that the vast majority of patients would have received the information by a clinician.

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