Cole-Hamilton: Cancer patients deserve better

Responding to new figures showing only 70.7% of cancer patients started treatment within the 62-day standard treatment time between July and September, with the target missed in every health board area, Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton MSP said:

“SNP ministers have never once met the cancer waiting times target in the thirteen years since it was introduced.

“Cancer patients deserve better than to be put on hold for life-saving treatment.

“Scottish Liberal Democrats would bring down waiting times and launch a new national lung cancer screening programme capable of saving hundreds of lives a year, like the one already being rolled out in England.

“We would also enable US scientists to finish their cancer research here, instead of letting Trump destroy all of their good work.”