Thousands in England & Wales waiting longer for cancer therapy than in Scotland

From Public Health Scotland today:

70.4% of patients started treatment within the 62-day standard.

The equivalent figure for NHS England is 64.6% meaning that 5.6% of the 287 991, or 16 100, had to wait longer than the target waiting time than they would have had to in an SNP-run NHS.

NHS Wales have made it damned difficult to extract the equivalent figures but a BBC Wales report puts it at only 53.4% for February 2024.

Sources:

https://www.publichealthscotland.scot/publications/cancer-waiting-times/cancer-waiting-times-1-january-to-31-march-2024/

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/cancer-waiting-times/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clkez97p2jdo

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