NHS staff: is your hospital considering cuts to cancer care?

A leading hospital in Oxford is delaying chemotherapy for cancer patients due to staff shortages. We want to hear from those affected and other NHS staff about whether other trusts are considering the same

It emerged on Wednesday morning that a leading NHS hospital is delaying chemotherapy for cancer patient due to a lack of staff.

Andrew Weaver, the head of chemotherapy at the Churchill Hospital in Oxford, wrote to staff to explain that treatment was being delayed. In the measures, which are not yet official policy, he also warned that the number of chemotherapy cycles offered to the terminally ill would have to be cut because there were not enough staff trained to deal with medication.

Continue reading... January 10, 2018 at 07:10PM