Coronavirus: More than half wait too long for non-Covid tests
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Figures published by NHS England this month showed almost 470,000 people had been waiting longer than six weeks for tests, including for cancer, at the end of April.In February, before coronavirus took hold in the UK, fewer than 3% of people waited longer than six weeks.'More than two million in UK wait for cancer care'
Seven times as many people were waiting longer than recommended for a procedure used to detect bowel cancer, and six times as many for an ECG test, used to check heart rhythm. A Department of Health and Social Care spokesperson said:"We recognise the impact this global pandemic has had on NHS services and the challenges faced as we start to restore them in a safe way.
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