TUC Risks 25th August reported that cancer survival rates in the UK are trailing behind much of the continent and in some cases struggling to stay ahead of eastern European countries despite significantly more funding.
A damning online editorial published alongside the findings in the Lancet Oncology medical journal suggests the cancer plans introduced in England in 2000 and Scotland in 2001 are not working and that remedying the problem would take a fundamental overhaul of NHS services.
The survey of cancer survival rates of 2.7 million people with cancer across Europe, Eurocare, shows that the gap between the highest survival rates, in the Nordic north and the lowest, mainly in eastern countries including Poland, is narrowing. But those in the UK remain stubbornly low.
The authors say: 'Overall, survival for all cancers combined in the UK as a whole is not only below the European average, it is also noticeably similar to some eastern European countries that spend less than one third of the UK's per capita healthcare budget.
Workplace health campaigners and unions earlier this year said that a failure by official UK agencies - including government departments and the Health and Safety Executive - to recognise and publicise occupational cancer risks and preventive measures was a contributory factor to the UK's poor performance on cancer.
To read the full article click on the following link:
http://by101fd.bay101.hotmail.msn.com/cgi-bin/getmsg?msg=D87DD0A0-D4F4-4660-AB20-4FEFC3B514CE&start=0&len=73599&imgsafe=y&curmbox=00000000%2d0000%2d0000%2d0000%2d000000000001&a=b0f96df1d3fd77cb1f2d5696dfa543a2508803741a618703e68949adbff0011f
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment