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Strikes putting cancer survival rates at risk, charity boss warns MPs - OLD

The goverment must resolve the NHS’s workforce crisis and pay problems or it will become “harder and harder” to prevent cancer patients dying early, the chief executive of Cancer Research UK has warned.

The planned strikes by nurses and ambulance workers pose a serious threat to cancer patients despite NHS efforts to prioritise them, Michelle Mitchell said.

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