Waiting times for cancer treatment longest in Midlands

Cancer charity Radiotherapy UK says waiting times for cancer treatment are longer in the Midlands than anywhere else in the country, adding that in the region 46.5 per cent of patients are waiting longer than 62 days for treatment following an urgent referral.

 

It said the percentage was 64.5 per cent for the Birmingham and Solihull integrated care board areas.

 

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust said it was treating more patients this year than ever before.

 

Professor Pam Price, chair of Radiotherapy UK, said “There has been investment in the NHS, which we welcome of course, but the trouble is, it’s not ringfenced for cancer treatments.

 

“We very much welcome the new diagnostics they put in but there’s not enough workforce and for treatment unless you’ve got treatment capacity, you’re not going to get through these backlogs.”

 

Director of the charity Sarah Quinlan sated “No region in the UK is currently meeting the government’s own targets for waiting times for cancer treatment.  This is catastrophic.”

 

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Posted by Karen Motley, Clinical Negligence Department, Chadwick Lawrence LLP (tonymay@chadlaw.co.uk ), medical negligence lawyers and clinical negligence solicitors in Huddersfield, Leeds, Wakefield and Halifax, West Yorkshire.

 

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