who think they may have cancer to have a diagnosis either confirming that they do or that they don�*t have cancer within 28 days. what happened to the plan isn�*t clear, but the treasury has not denied that it intervened. labour said it was more evidence the government is in disarray. we desperately need a plan. the government said it was going to come up with a plan and now it hasn�*t. i think it is yet more evidence that the chaos and incompetence of particularly the last three or four months where everybody has been embroiled in allegations about partygate, there is a price for that, and the price is the government not getting on with the job. the plan was meant to tackle the record high nhs backlog — six million people are on waiting lists for nonurgent operations, like knee replacements. notjust inconvenient but often causing huge suffering to those waiting. we hearfrom people that this is really putting their lives on hold.