We go through the end of the wheat. Other parts of the uk. So how would an expected move by nhs england to reconfigure the targets for Cancer Care Waiting Times affect that . Nhs england is taking a new tack on cancer Waiting Times. Well be asking Cancer Research uk and Labours Health minister in the welsh senedd whether this will bring radical improvement for patients on waiting lists, or is itjust a way of covering up failure . Also tonight more possible danger ahead for donald trump as his fourth indictment could be delivered this week, this time a state, not a federal charge, which a future President Trump could not pardon. Well be joined by a lawyer who tried to prosecute trump and one who worked to defend him. And on the eve of the 25th Anniversary of the 0magh bomb, which took 33 lives and injured 200 more four months after the good friday agreement, why has justice never been served . Well hear from voices across the communities in Northern Ireland. Good evening. Nhs Waiting Ti
to combine them into one target with the same ambition. the more controversial change is to remove a target for patients to see a specialist within two weeks, and replace it with the aim of patients only waiting a month to receive a diagnosis or be cleared. the reason for this shift is having a hospital appointment doesn t guarantee a quicker diagnosis. today, some patients can be sent directly to be tested, skipping the need for that first appointment. but with the target encouraging a hospital visit, nhs reports suggest some trusts arrange meetings but no tests to basically stop the clock on the target, while patients would still be waiting to know whether they had cancer. the proposed targets have been already trialled in 11 english trusts since 2019. by 2021, almost 79% of patients at the new target hospitals were getting a diagnosis within a month, compared to nearly 72% of patients in other hospitals, a seemingly slight improvement. 0verall, nhs england would not meet this prop