Routine delays: the cancer services struggling to treat patients on time

Demand for cancer treatment continues to rise while workforce numbers fall, leaving NHS cancer services calling for help as they enter “crisis management”.
Illustration of a technician reading into an aseptic isolator, in which they are moving logistic trucks between supplier to factory, to hospital, with people disgruntled and waiting at each point.

Responses to a survey carried out by the British Oncology Pharmacy Association (BOPA) on the state of anticancer therapy provision in the UK make for difficult reading​[1]​.

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