In England, waiting times for cancer patients have tripled in twelve years

In England waiting times for cancer patients have tripled in

Delays in treatment and waiting lists of several months in hospitals, exhaustion of caregivers… 76 years after its creation, the British public health system, the NHS, is going through an unprecedented crisis. New figures published by the Office for National Statistics show that in England, waiting times for cancer patients in particular have tripled over the last 12 years. So this week, several experts from the medical world are sounding the alarm. They are urging the British Prime Minister to make the fight against cancer a political “priority”.

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