Patients have to wait too long for test results. This could mean that illnesses could reach stage where surgery cannot treat them anymore, thus patients could die because of this. David Cameron has offered personal guarantees that patients will not have to wait long to be treated. The NHS data showed that an extra 2,400 people a month are not being treated within 18 weeks. If people have to wait so long then their treatment options are being limited and they are waiting with pain longer than they should be. The Department of Health denied that waiting times were becoming a problem. A spokeswoman said: "Waiting times are low and have been broadly stable since 2008. The latest figures show that 90.5% of admitted patients and 97.5% of non-admitted patients started treatment in under 18 weeks".
I understand that The Department of Health is very busy all the time, but that doesn’t mean that people have to wait so long for their results. If you have cancer you want a treatment as soon as possible because if you have to wait there is a huge chance that treatment doesn’t help anymore. I think everyone deserves a chance of getting better, thus the Department of Health should do something about the waiting times instead of denying it because the NHS data shows that waiting times are too long.
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