Kelly Smith, aged 31, had been living with bowel cancer for more than three years when she died on June 13th after saying she was angry her treatment had been paused for 12 weeks
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Caught up on the panorama special regarding cancer treatments being effected due to coronavirus. This is just one tragic example of how this pandemic has effected the healthcare system.
I know no-one likes to criticise the NHS and in reality you can’t actually criticise the NHS as it’s individual people who have made the decisions they’ve made not the organisation itself but when you’re cancelling cancer treatments for 12 weeks, potentially life saving treatments, how is this considered as acceptable? Despite the risk from Covid, are we seriously to believe there was no way to work around this? And what good is protection from coronavirus when you have a life threatening condition anyway.
Anyone can be an expert with hindsight but whenever this is finally over there’s going to be one hell of an enquiry as so much stuff has been cocked up.