This information today from reader Dottie’s Phone today, based on extractions from the Guardian’s £14bn plan to reduce NHS cancer backlogs in England is failing, MPs say England: The MPs found waiting times for cancer treatment were “at their worst recorded level”, and concluded that the target to ensure that 85% of people did not wait more than 62 days for cancer treatment after an urgent GP referral would not be met by March 2023. In the first five months of 2022-23, only 62% of patients met the target and 11% were treated more than 104 days after an urgent … Continue reading Cancer waiting times: NHS Scotland 20% better than NHS England and 44% better than NHS Wales