Not enough NHS staff for people with cancer, charity warns
Lynda Thomas, chief executive at Macmillan Cancer Support, said it was"heart-rending that so many people call at breaking point having struggled to find the support they need from their healthcare team.
The NHS target is for 85% of patients given an urgent referral by their GP to start cancer treatment within 62 days. And nearly one in five people recently diagnosed with or treated for cancer, said the doctors and nurses who cared for them seemed to have unmanageable workloads. The NHS aims to give every person diagnosed with cancer"access to personalised care plans including a needs assessment and health and wellbeing support" by 2021, they added.
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