including surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. we re expecting the latest performance stats for nhs england shortly but first this report from dominic hughes. married for more than 50 years, wendy and tony had seen each other through thick and thin. in september of last year, wendy s husband had a routine chest x ray. it wasn t until november he was informed there was something abnormal and was eventually told it was terminal lung cancer in january. we assumed, obviously wrongly, that if we hadn t heard anything, everything must be all right. tony died at the end of february, but that long delay in diagnosis and treatment still torments wendy and her children. it seems that it was the big delay at the beginning between when tony had his x ray and someone then raised concerns about what they saw on that x ray that was the thing? yes. and i m not saying the end result
waits for urgent cancer treatment has doubled in the past four years across england, scotland and northern ireland. bbc analysis of nhs data showed 67,000 patients waited longer than the target of 62 days for care including surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. we re expecting the latest performance stats for nhs england in half an hour but first this report from dominic hughes. married for more than 50 years, wendy and tony had seen each other through thick and thin. in september of last year, wendy s husband had a routine chest x ray. it wasn t until november he was informed there was something abnormal and was eventually told it was terminal lung cancer in january. we assumed, obviously wrongly, that if we hadn t heard anything, everything must be all right. tony died at the end of february, but that long delay in diagnosis and treatment still torments wendy and her children. it seems that it was the big delay at the beginning between when tony had his x ray and someone then
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4. Cash Allocations Back to the Bottom of the Range: Thanks mostly to market movements, surveyed cash allocations have dropped - this means at the margin there is incrementally less cash in proportion to equities (less buying power), and also tells us investors are implicitly comfortable running lower allocations.
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5. TD Ameritrade Investor Movement Index: This interesting sentiment indicator (based on trading account activity) has surged to the 3rd highest level since they began compiling the indicator (in 2010). Should be no surprise; especially in the context of the last two charts - sentiment is little short of euphoric.
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6. Sell Side Sell Indicator: basically this one is tracking sentiment of the sell side (analysts/strategists at investment banks). It’s a bit of a peculiar indicator, but could be worth noting as/when it hits the “sell signal“ level (which could well be soon).