"Three in four NHS hospital trusts are failing cancer patients, according to the first league tables of their kind, prompting experts to declare a national emergency. Labour published the first league tables to rank hospitals in England from best to worst since the early 2000s this week. The overall rankings score trusts based on a range of measures including finances and patient safety, as well as how they are bringing down waiting times for operations and in A&E, and improving ambulance response times."
"Three-quarters of NHS hospitals failing to meet cancer targets is nothing short of a national emergency. Behind every missed target is a person left waiting, a family left in limbo, and lives put at greater risk because the system simply isn't moving fast enough. Cancer does not wait. Delays in diagnosis and treatment cost lives it's as stark as that."
The new league tables rank 118 NHS hospital trusts across measures including finances, patient safety, waiting times, A&E performance and ambulance response. Analysis of underlying data found that 90 of 118 trusts (76%) miss the 28-day target to rule cancer in or out in at least 80% of urgent referral cases, and 86 trusts (73%) fail the 62-day target to start treatment in 75% of patients. Delays in diagnosis and treatment reduce treatment options and increase mortality; cancer causes about one in four deaths in the UK. Charity leaders described the situation as a national emergency and called for immediate action to prevent avoidable deaths.
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