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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Nicola Davis Science correspondent

Cancer patients may be at risk due to overstretched NHS staff, ombudsman warns

Nurse on hospital ward
Rob Behrens, the ombudsman, said funding needed to be ploughed into the workforce to maintain patient safety. Photograph: Tommy London/Alamy

Cancer patients in England could be at risk because NHS staff are overstretched and exhausted, the official complaints body has warned.

The parliamentary and health service ombudsman, which investigates complaints about government departments and the NHS in England, said that between April 2020 and December 2023, 185 of 1,019 investigations relating to patients with cancer were upheld or partly upheld.

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