The coalition government has unveiled its NHS cancer strategy which includes a £60m investment in bowel cancer screening and a commitment to funding 1,200 more specialists.
It has also announced £43m more towards funding proton beam therapy for high priority patients requiring the treatment. This, it is estimated, would help 400 patients per year by the end of the spending review period. These measures are in addition to the previously announced £50m in additional cancer drugs this year and £10.75m to raise cancer awareness, which will focus on breast, lung and bowel cancers. The Department of Health said it believes the NHS does not achieve the outcomes that it should. "On cancer, if we were to achieve cancer survival rates which were at the Europ...
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