 GPs asked to contact hundreds of patients who may have missed treatment after hospital’s cancer referrals blunder
Exclusive Hundreds of patients with suspected cancer urgently referred by GPs within the last year to the country’s largest hospital trust may not have been seen within two weeks, it emerged today.
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 Exclusive The Department of Health is preparing to trial giving GPs access to primary care risk calculators as part of its initiative to diagnose cancer earlier, Pulse can reveal. |
 Exclusive Two-thirds of PCTs have yet to provide GPs with access to the full set of cancer diagnostics identified by the Department of Health as a high priority for 2011/12, despite a central drive to improve cancer survival rates by encouraging earlier diagnosis. |
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The latest in GP and hospital practitioner Dr Andy Jordan’s series on differentiating two often similar-looking skin conditions |
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