| Tuesday, 23 December 2008 |
GOING FURTHER ON CANCER WAITSDear colleague, As you know, the Government’s Cancer Reform Strategy, which was published one year ago, set out an ambitious programme to improve cancer services further, with the aim being to make our cancer services amongst the best in the world by 2012. This included a specific aim to ensure that more patients benefit from the success of the existing cancer waiting times standards. I am writing to update you about progress in expanding these standards, and to set out the changes that you will be seeing from 1 January 2009. Read the whole letter from Prof Mike Richards National Cancer Director pdf |