GPs ordered to ration cancer scans: Lives 'being put at risk' by bureaucrats' new cost-saving directive.
Family doctors have been ordered to ration the number of patients they send for life-saving cancer scans to save money.
They are being told to slash the number they refer to hospital for tests including ultrasounds, MRIs and CT scans commonly used to spot tumours.
Last night experts warned the cost-saving measures increased the risk of patients being diagnosed too late and dying unnecessarily.
Britain has one of the lowest cancer survival rates in Europe, and experts say late diagnosis is to blame.
But it's "free".
Mayo Study: Widespread Burnout Among New Doctors...
“Burnout and reports of low levels of quality of life were very common,” said lead researcher Dr. Colin West.
He said more than half of graduate medical students reported symptoms of burnout. Equally troubling was a finding that burnout — and high student debt — caused lower test scores.
Edited by Rogerdodger, 07 September 2011 - 10:27 PM.
