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Metro - NHS waiting list crisis moving targets
Summary of the front page
The Metro leads on the news that the NHS target of suspected cancer patients seeing a specialist within two weeks could be scrapped with health service bosses calling it “outdated”.
The front page quotes a leading oncologist saying the idea is “ominous and deeply worrying”. NHS bosses say the current range of targets are “outdated” because of new diagnostic techniques, the Metro reports.
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