Cancer cash crisis

Cancer cash crisis This report finds that NHS in England spends more than £500 million a year on emergency care for people diagnosed with the four most common cancers alone. Of this, more than £130m is spent treating people more than six months after their diagnosis, when initial treatment has usually finished. The report warns that a lack of post-diagnosis support for people living with cancer is putting increased pressure on overstretched A&E departments as the health service faces another winter of high demand. Macmillan Cancer Support