Wednesday, 6 March 2019

Nobody move or the cancer patients get hurt!

From the BBC:

Hospitals are likely to experience delays to cancer testing and treatment regardless of the result of next week's Brexit vote, BBC Newsnight has learned.

The Royal College of Radiologists has told doctors to prepare for possible delays for some drugs used to detect cancer if there is a no-deal Brexit. It says clinicians should reduce their workload in the days after 29 March, when the UK is due to leave the EU...

The five-page guidance to doctors from the Royal College of Radiologists (RCR), seen by Newsnight, warns that some radiopharmaceutical suppliers "anticipate there may be some delay to their delivery times". It advises clinicians to: "Keep [your] workload lighter for the first week following a no-deal Brexit, in order to see more clearly what the impact is likely to be."


Likely to, possible delays, may be, in order to see more clearly.

If the lack of drugs doesn't kill them, the prevaricating and work-to-rule, go-slow will. Are NHS doctors allowed to do 'industrial action' to support a purely political agenda?

2 comments:

Bayard said...

Beat me to it. When I heard this on the radio, my immediate thought was "one for Mark's blog".

Mark Wadsworth said...

B, fish, barrel.