Get daily news updates directly to your inbox Subscribe Thank you for subscribing We have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Could not subscribe, try again later Invalid EmailWaits for cancer treatments are now the worst on record. Just 78.2% patients started treatment within two months of an urgent GP referral, NHS England figures for July show. This is the lowest amount to hit the 62-day standard since records began in October 2009 – and well below the NHS minimum of 85%. Tom Sandford, director of the Royal College Of Nursing for England, said: “This bald statistic represents untold stress and misery for thousands of patients.”(Image: PA)Trusts missed five out of the eight cancer waiting targets. A&E performance is down, waiting lists are rising and even cancer services are overstretched.

Source: Daily Mirror September 13, 2018 18:56 UTC