from an urgent referral. and treatment starting one month after a decision to treat. but other targets, for example, a two—week wait from an urgent gp referral to see a consultant, including for breast cancer patient, will be dropped. nhs england says the changes would remove the need for unnecessary outpatient appointments in order to meet waiting time rules allow more patients to get a faster diagnosis. but the reality is that most cancer targets have been missed for some time, and labour believes that's what's behind this change. and under the last labour government we had targets, we hit those targets, we didn't walk away when the going got tough. with this government what we've got is targets that they've repeatedly failed to hit, and now what they're doing is moving the goalposts. recent figures show that just 59% of cancer patients in england waited less than two months for their first treatment to start after being referred by their gp, well below the target of 85%. everyone wants simpler targets, that will be easier for patients to understand. but the problem is, we're in the worst consequences of my lifetime and simply changing targets won't cure patients, we need