NHS challenges companies to give staff time off for lifesaving cancer checks

The health service has urged companies to ensure workers can have time off to attend cancer screening appointments (PA) -

Employers should give workers time off to attend potentially lifesaving cancer screening, the outgoing head of the NHS has said.

Amanda Pritchard, who ends her tenure as NHS England chief executive on Monday, said that companies need to do “all they can” to help people attend cancer checks.