by According to the first league of their kind, three out of four trusts of the NHS hospital fail cancer patients, which prompted experts to explain a “national emergency”.
Labor has published the first league tables since the early 2000s this week to manage hospitals in England. The overall rankings achieved Trusts based on a number of measures, including finances and patient safety as well as how they reduce waiting times for the operation and in a&E and improve the response times of the ambulances.
The guard analysis of the underlying data has shown that about three quarters of trusts do not hit any of the two cancer goals in the tables.
Ninety of the 118 Trusts (76%) lack the first goal of the governing cancer within 28 days of urgent transfers in at least 80% of the cases.
The analysis also shows that 86 of the 118 Trusts (73%) does not reach the second cancer goal, which was measured in the tables, the treatment within 62 days in 75% of patients.
The delay in cancer diagnosis or treatment can lead to poorer results for patients, less options for combating the disease and earlier death. Cancer is the greatest murderer of the UK and causes about one of four deaths.
Cancer experts said they were alerted by the Guardian’s knowledge. Paula Chadwick, the managing director of the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation, said: “Three quarters of the NHS hospitals that have not reached cancer goals are nothing less than a national emergency.
“Behind every missed goal is a person who has a waiting time, a family in the floating, and life is exposed to a higher risk because the system simply does not move quickly enough. Cancer is not waiting. Delays live with diagnosis and treatment life – it is as blatant as that.”
Chadwick said the government and the NHS had to act to tackle the crisis. “Without immediate action, people who could and would have saved will die,” she said.
Helen Dickens, the Chief Support Officer at breast cancer now, said that the numbers were “devastating” and she was “deeply concerned” that many patients were confronted with very long waiting for the treatment. “More needs to be done to reverse these alarming trends,” she said.
Susanna Daniels, the managing director of Melanoma Focus, said: “It is deeply that three out of four NHS hospitals are missing the cancer treatment goals. In patients with melanoma -skin cancer, delays could significantly influence their results.”
Alfie Bailey-Beerfield, chairman of the Taskforce “Lensiver Survival Cancers”, said that the treatment delays are unacceptable. “For people in whom less survival cancer were diagnosed – the brain, the liver, the lungs, the esophagus, the pancreas and stomach – the time is absolutely critical,” he said. “With 90,000 people in Great Britain, these cancer diagnoses and they have an average survival rate of only 16%of five years. We urgently need the NHS and the government to prioritize faster diagnosis and treatment.”
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust in England was the worst ranking on 62 days, with only four out of ten of his patients (42.2%) started treatment within two months. It was also the second worst performer on the 28 -day diagnostic goal, whereby only 59.2% of the patients were communicated that they lead or not within one month after an urgent transfer to cancer.
The managing director of Mid and South Essex, Matthew Hopkins, said: “Our patients earn better and we absolutely concentrate on improving our position as trust. We increase the provision of diagnostic tests, outpatient clinics and cancer surgery to shorten the time until diagnosis and treatment.”
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust was the worst in the country on 28 days and ruled in 57.5% of patients within one month of an urgent cancer transfer to cancer. It was the most third -party actor in England on the 62 -day treatment goal (49.3%).
A spokesman for the NHS Humber Health Partnership said: “We are disappointed with our position in the latest tables of the NHS league. They show areas in which we better do for the communities we serve.”
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust were classified as the best in England within 62 days (87.3%). The Bolton NHS Foundation Trust was the top performer in cancer diagnosis and decided in 88.6% of the patients within 28 days.
Health Secretary Wes Streeting said that the league tables would determine exactly where urgent support would need and the “postcode of care” would be ended for patients.
“We have to be honest about the condition of the NHS to fix it. Patients and taxpayers need to know how their local NHS services develop compared to the rest of the country,” he said. “Patients know when the local services are not up to date and they want to see an end to the postcode – this government does that.”
Additional reporting from Michael Goodier
