Labour accuses government of disrupting cancer services through cuts, after more than 20,000 people waited over two months for treatment last year
More than 20,000 people with urgent cancer referrals waited more than two months to start treatment in England last year, as the NHS missed its target, official statistics show.
The NHS is required to begin treating 85% of people within 62 days of a GP referral. But figures published on Wednesday showed that in the last three months of 2014, it managed to treat only 83.8% within two months, the fourth consecutive quarter in which it had missed the target.
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