It was revealed that suspected cancer patients are having to wait up to six months to be seen by a doctor on the NHS
The NHS has been slammed for rising waiting times after it was revealed that suspected cancer patients are having to wait up to six months to be seen by a doctor.
Patients have had to wait as long as nine months for a test or scan, extending to two years to receive a diagnosis or to have the disease ruled out.
Karol Sikora joined Andrew Pierce and Bev Turner on GB News to react to the new figures.
He said: “We could have coped with Covid and still run the normal cancer services, normal heart services, and that just didn't happen. As we've come out of it, it's just not gone quickly enough.
“There's been other problems, the industrial action by different professional groups and the health service, the very fact that the health service is so bureaucratic and so behind in being a consumer organisation.
“There's no other consumer organisation I know that you'd have to phone up, wait on the phone for an hour and be told you can't have an appointment to see someone and this is just unbelievable.
“Or to wait 12 hours in an emergency room to get stitched, I mean, there's no other organisation, that I know of would make you wait.
“Not even a budget airline would treat you that badly, so I think the important thing is getting it much more consumer focused and getting things moving again.”
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