The Prostate Cancer Charity has backed the recent publication of the Public Accounts Committee report on Tackling Cancer: Improving the Patient Journey, which calls on the Government to put prostate cancer higher on its health agenda.
“The Public Accounts Committee (PAC), in its own report, has shone a searching light on these particular problems and pressed for key changes. I welcome the report’s recommendations and urge the Government to respond positively, urgently and with conviction.
“Despite examples of excellent practice, far too many prostate cancer patients are not receiving NHS care and support to the standard they should expect. There are major gaps – reinforced by our own research – in the care, quality and consistency of information they get as well as support during, what for many men is, a time of great anxiety and complex decision making.” John Neate added: “All the indications from this report are that services for prostate cancer patients throughout the patient journey – from cancelled outpatient appointments, to limited time spent in clinic, to lack of information, to unresolved pain after discharge – are far from being optimally organised.”
