NHS fail to provide terminal breast cancer patients
Thousands of terminal breast cancer patients are being left abandoned after being denied access to a specialist nurse, the charity Breast Cancer Care has warned.
According to figures released to coincide with the international awareness day for the disease, almost three quarters (72 per cent) of NHS trusts across the UK do not provide dedicated nurses.
The charity said that there had only been a 7 per cent increase in trusts providing crucial nursing support in the two years since they last looked into the issue.
That comes despite the government's cancer strategy promising three years ago that all cancer patients would have access to a designated nurse by 2020.
Abandoned patients
People living with incurable breast cancer tell us that access to a specialist nu...










