Exclusive: Urgent cancer scans blocked for nearly half of GPs

Exclusive: Urgent cancer scans blocked for nearly half of GPs Nearly half of GPs have had a referral on the two-week cancer pathway bounced back or downgraded to non-urgent over the past year, GPonline can reveal - often for patients later found to have cancer.

See also:

• Half of GPs have had urgent cancer referrals blocked by NHS managers The Daily Mail
• Two charts that highlight problems for GPs diagnosing cancer GPonline 
• GPs face 'too many barriers' to diagnostic tests for cancer GPonline