British cancer survival and cure rates are some of the lowest in Europe . They are way below what could reasonably expected in a country whose National Health Service is second only to the Chinese military as the world's largest employer.
Why? No doubt large numbers of people across the NHS and in large government buildings will be looking into this question.
They don't have to look far for one basic fact.
The state's monopoly supplier of free health care has a target of commencing treatment within 62 days,- that's two months,-of diagnosis. The simple fact is that every day lost in getting it under way can see the cancers grow or spread . This seriously diminishes the chances of a favourable outcome. The patients' chances of survival decrease by the day.
This is nothing to do with "the cuts". It's about processes, a lack of sense of urgency, administrative inefficiency, poor systems and systems management.
There is no non-human reason why the UK should be down there with the worst in Europe. The problem is that humans design and allow it it to be.
Why? No doubt large numbers of people across the NHS and in large government buildings will be looking into this question.
They don't have to look far for one basic fact.
The state's monopoly supplier of free health care has a target of commencing treatment within 62 days,- that's two months,-of diagnosis. The simple fact is that every day lost in getting it under way can see the cancers grow or spread . This seriously diminishes the chances of a favourable outcome. The patients' chances of survival decrease by the day.
This is nothing to do with "the cuts". It's about processes, a lack of sense of urgency, administrative inefficiency, poor systems and systems management.
There is no non-human reason why the UK should be down there with the worst in Europe. The problem is that humans design and allow it it to be.
