NHS to take more than a decade to catch up on pandemic-driven cancer treatment delays

The Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) has published a paper that found the pandemic has "severely disrupted" cancer services in England across the care pathway, with reductions in activity seen in screening, referrals, and diagnostic and treatment services. In response to the pandemic, the report said, the NHS had to take "previously unthinkable" steps like cancelling cancer treatments.   The think tank found that, if even stretched hospitals could maintain national services at 105% of pre-pandemic activity levels, it would take until 2028 and 2033 to make up for missed chem...