An extra £10m is to be made available to treat people with bowel cancer, health secretary Frank Dobson said this week.
Part of the money will be used to bring down waiting times for treatment. Around 27,000 people are diagnosed with the condition every year. Survival rates are not as good as in many other western countries.
At a recent AstraZeneca UK sponsored HSJ roundtable event for NHS stakeholders, I had the privilege of hearing directly from clinicians, digital leads, and operational decision-makers across multiple cancer pathways.
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