Consultants are supported by registrars and mid-career secondary care doctors training to become consultants. Secondary care-focused provision is reflected in previously reported preferences of cancer survivors for follow-up care (Kimman et al, 2010; Bessen et al, 2014). However, as the number of...
A mother's memory of being X-rayed during the relevant pregnancy is checked as far as possible by reference to clinical records (by family doctors, antenatal clinics and hospitals). A mother's report that she had been X-rayed was positively confirmed in some 64% and positively denied in ...
2005;Scottish Government, 2009). In England, patients referred from primary care with suspected cancer should be seen in secondary care within 2 weeks (hence the common term ‘2-week wait referrals’;Meechan et al, 2012;Department of Health, 2000) and begin...