More than a quarter of women with suspected breast cancer wait more than two weeks to see a specialist.
The number missing the NHS target for a consultation has doubled from 13% in 2021 and just 5% in 2010 when the Tories took power, shock NHS data shows. In the last month alone than 3,000 waited longer than two weeks for a specialist.
Waiting times for gynaecology have trebled in 10 years with over half a million in the queue.