Member

However, keeping patients safe goes beyond just blowing the whistle. My hon. Friend the Member for Epsom and Ewell (Helen Maguire) has tabled new clause 52 to give patients a right to start cancer treatment within 62 days of referral, with a scheme to deliver this. Liberal Democrat research earlier this year found that 80% of trusts failed to meet that 62-day target, with nearly 1,000 patients waiting over six months for treatment. People are suffering and dying because of these failures—it just is not safe.