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NHS cancer treatment waiting times continue to rise
‘There are simply not enough doctors to safely treat the volume of patients’, Royal College of Radiologists warns
Radiologists Emma Parker and Gemma Ainsworth prepare a patient for an X-ray in the X-Ray department at The Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital in East Lancashire

NHS cancer treatment waiting times continue to rise and lag woefully below targets in England.

Just 61 per cent of cancer patients who had their first treatment in April after an urgent GP referral had waited less than two months for treatment to start, figures from NHS England revealed today.

This is down from 63.5 per cent in March and against a target of 85 per cent.

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