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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Politics
Martin Bagot

NHS waiting lists continue to soar despite Tories flagship cancer centre launch

An extra 135,000 patients are waiting for cancer tests and scans since the rollout of the Government’s flagship diagnostic centres programme.

The Labour Party obtained NHS figures showing that there are 1.2 million patients on waiting lists for diagnostic scans and tests, up 135,000 on last July when the programme started.

Some 90 community diagnostic centres (CDCs) are offering MRI, CT and other services closer to patients’ homes in community locations from shopping centres to football stadiums.

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