The Princess of Wales reveals she has cancer in an unprecedented video address. Kate Middleton, with voice breaking with emotion, delivers an incredible message of hope to fellow cancer sufferers and the nation.
READ MORE: What's YOUR risk of cancer? We reveal the average Brit's riskIf dealt the devastating blow that you have cancer, you could be forgiven for not wanting to be treated on the NHS.
Claire Rayner, journalist and famed Agony Aunt, shared her 'guilt' over using private health care to 'jump the queue' after being diagnosed with breast cancer. Mrs Rayner was pictured here in 2008Undoubtedly, there are obvious benefits. For instance, you don't need to wait months — giving the disease precious time to spread — for answers.
Data shows around 250,000 people in England wait with bated breath to find out if they have cancer each month, but more than one in four have to wait longer than they should. 'Cancer doesn’t wait for the NHS to get its act together on waiting lists,' she said. 'It doesn’t care if you can afford to pay.
Rates in 2022 were around 4 per cent higher than pre-Covid, showing a slight trend upwards, as opposed to a wave of cancer patients deserting the NHS. Data provided by private health insurance information company myTribe Insurance shows the average cost of private cancer treatment varies from about £28,000 to over £130,000, depending on the specific form of the disease.
Instead, he advised people with the means to: 'Keep £10,000 spare somewhere, in a building society account, the highest interest rate you can get. Chemotherapy — a brutal but effective treatment, which indiscriminately attacks the body to destroy tumours — was one of the major costs of going private. 'If you are paying as you go use your money efficiently and only pay when you need to, when there's going to be a serious delay.
But he added that a potential disadvantage is that if you are hoping between NHS and private care some health service medics do take offence and you may have to combat an 'anti-private sentiment'. However, charities say this is not a way to jump the queue. Private referrals or results for tests are given the same weight as NHS equivalents, meaning you could still face month-long waits for follow-ups.The prestigious London Clinic offers private patients a number of meals that are likely to feature on restaurant menus, such as this gold-leaf dressed dessert offering.
Their facilities are typically more updated and modern, almost like hotels, compared to dated and sometimes crumbling NHS infrastructure. Hospital food is also on the whole better, typically made fresh on site in kitchens run by top chefs, compared to famously questionable NHS fare. She told MailOnline: 'Despite every important cancer metric worsening and patients enduring longer waits for treatment, there's still no dedicated cancer plan in sight.
Cataract surgery in quarter three was the most popular private procedure , followed by chemotherapy . Fresh research, published in the Lancet Oncology, last week revealed cancer survival rates in the UK are lagging 15 years behind other major countries because of a lack of chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
Claire Rayner, journalist and famed Agony Aunt, shared her 'guilt' over using private health care to 'jump the queue' and get her breast cancer seen quicker than if she would have used the NHS. Cancer care in the UK has been thrown into the spotlight this month, after The Princess of Wales revealing her own battle with the disease.
This of course came as a huge shock, and William and I have been doing everything we can to process and manage this privately for the sake of our young family.
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