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In the Guardian and on the BBC Health website:

Cancer patients may be at risk due to overstretched NHS staff, ombudsman warns

Cancer patients at risk from stretched NHS, says NHS complaints chief

No statistics are offered about actual waiting times. No politician is named or blamed and there is nothing like this which BBC Health did offer last year, much to the reported horror at BBC Scotland:

Not only does Scotland have far shorter cancer treatment waiting times, it does this despite greater pressure from demand.

From Public Health Scotland in 2024, the rate, or risk, of new cancers was 644 per 100,000.

From the UK Government in 2024, the rate in England is 540 per 100 000. The rate in Scotland is 20% higher.

From the World Health Organisation in 2022, the average level of cancer cases in Europe is only 280 per 100 000. In North America, it’s 364.7 and in Oceania (Australia, NZ), it’s 409.

Sources:

https://publichealthscotland.scot/publications/cancer-incidence-in-scotland/cancer-incidence-in-scotland-to-december-2021

https://gco.iarc.fr/today/en/dataviz/bars?types=0_1&mode=population&key=asr&sort_by=value1

https://www.statista.com/statistics/312961/new-cancer-cases-rate-england-age-gender/#:~:text=Cancer%20is%20an%20aggregation%20of,excluding%20non%2Dmelanoma%20skin%20cancer

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