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CANCER patients can?t get life-saving treatment due to chaos caused by NHS reforms, say doctors.
Potentially deadly tumours are being ignored as bureaucrats wrestle with red tape put in place this month. Consultants? requests for radiotherapy funding have gone unanswered so they cannot refer patients for treatment.
Karol Sikora, former cancer adviser to the World Health Organisation, said: ?This is outrageous. It is completely wrong to make people wait because the bureaucracy isn?t in place.
?Patients should be treated and then a review carried out later, otherwise their condition could become untreatable during the delay.?
http://www.express.co.uk/news/health/395308/NHS-reforms-will-kill-cancer-patients
Potentially deadly tumours are being ignored as bureaucrats wrestle with red tape put in place this month. Consultants? requests for radiotherapy funding have gone unanswered so they cannot refer patients for treatment.
Karol Sikora, former cancer adviser to the World Health Organisation, said: ?This is outrageous. It is completely wrong to make people wait because the bureaucracy isn?t in place.
?Patients should be treated and then a review carried out later, otherwise their condition could become untreatable during the delay.?
http://www.express.co.uk/news/health/395308/NHS-reforms-will-kill-cancer-patients