Patients forced to wait months for vital NHS diagnostic tests

Patients forced to wait months for vital NHS diagnostic tests Medical teams have warned that some diagnostic services in the NHS are “close to failure”, with more than 184,000 patients in England waiting three months or longer for key tests.

Children in some specialist hospitals are among those waiting several weeks for diagnostic procedures, in breach of government targets. The Guardian

See also:

• NHS services ‘close to failure’ as patients wait months for diagnostic tests The Independent