The sources told The Mirror that the plan will be announced Tuesday at the Labor Party conference in Brighton and will call for all National Health Services patients to receive diagnostic tests within a week of seeing their primary care doctor.
"If the NHS doesn't give you your tests within one week you will have the right to go to an alternative NHS or private provider," a source told the newspaper.
The Daily Telegraph said Saturday said the announcement is aimed at decreasing cancer deaths in Britain, but there are also political considerations. Sources said the plan would not go into effect until 2015 and could leave Labor vulnerable to charges the plan was aimed only at bolstering the party among voters.
This would be something amazing for us in the United States. In 2007 when they first diagnosed my cancer, it took three months for them to test the Lymphnode before determining a course of treatment. The Lyphnode they removed from my neck traveled from Florida, to Texas, to Boston Mass, and then back to Florida for a three month time frame before my treatment started.
Who says we don't need health care reform?
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