<\/noscript> <\/div>\nNHS data on cancer waiting times also showed just six in ten cancer patients were seen within the two-month target. Almost 6,600 patients were left waiting more than 62 days to start treatment for surgery, chemo and radiotherapy, after an urgent referral from their GP. NHS guidelines state 85 per cent of cancer patients should be seen within this time-frame. This target has not been met nationally since December 2015<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Saffron Cordery, deputy chief executive at NHS Providers, added: ‘Trust leaders\u2019 efforts to recover urgent and emergency care \u2013 and to bring down the waiting list \u2013 must be backed nationally with proper support.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘This includes better government funding in workforce and capital, including beds and vital equipment, and a solution for the challenges in social care.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She added: ‘The strikes divert trusts\u2019 resources from bearing down on backlogs to managing the disruption they cause.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘It\u2019s vital the government and unions talk to find a resolution to the pay dispute. There can be no delay.’<\/p>\n
NHS data on cancer waiting times also showed just six in ten cancer patients were seen within the two-month target.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Almost 6,600\u00a0patients were left waiting more than 62 days to start treatment for surgery, chemo and radiotherapy, after an urgent referral from their GP.\u00a0<\/p>\n
NHS guidelines state 85 per cent of cancer patients should be seen within this time-frame. This target has not been met nationally\u00a0since December 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Professor Pat Price, leading oncologist and founder of the #CatchUpWithCancer campaign, said: ‘These figures confirm that cancer treatment performance remains around record low levels and that deadly delays remain baked into cancer treatment with over four in 10 cancer patients waiting far too long.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘The Government need to break this drumbeat of monthly and quarterly failure and take decisive action to boost treatment capacity.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘It’s ominous that in the vital cancer treatment area of radiotherapy, performance actually worsened.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘This isn’t just a red flag for cancer, it’s a siren blaring the need for immediate action to tackle the crisis.’<\/p>\n
Latest ambulance figures for July also show waiting times fell significantly.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This is despite ambulances services facing their busiest month since May 2022, with 707,000 calls last month.<\/p>\n
Heart attack and stroke patients in England, known as category two callers, had to wait an average of 31 minutes and 50 seconds for paramedics to arrive, shaving five minutes off the previous month.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The NHS target is 18 minutes, however.<\/p>\n
Ambulances took an average of eight minutes and 21 seconds\u00a0to attend the most life-threatening category one calls, such as cardiac arrests.\u00a0The NHS target stands at seven minutes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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