Peter Rhodes on badgers, cancer and the ultimate boast: 'I was there'
According to a report by the King's Fund think-tank, the NHS spends less on health care than many developed nations and has worse outcomes for life expectancy and cancer survival. But who's to blame?
That's an easy question. When something goes right with our health service, we praise the good ol' NHS. When anything goes wrong, we blame the Government.
Meanwhile, the NHS has launched a programme to detect lung cancer sooner. It will target smokers and former smokers, which makes statistical sense.
But as even the most fervent anti-smokers admit, we can't blame all lung cancers on fags. Cancer Research UK tells us: “Some people who get lung cancer don’t smoke . . . up to 14 per cent of people with lung cancer in the UK have never smoked.”
There is nothing fair about the Big C.
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