Here’s how to save 10,000 lives – let GPs order cancer tests | Simon Jenkins

The health regulator, Nice, is right – as my experience shows, early diagnosis is essential. But it’s being prevented by the NHS’s own testing regime

I have a plan to save 10,000 lives a year, but no one will listen. That is the number of the shocking excess of cancer deaths in the UK over the European average. The excess is mostly attributable to late diagnosis, or so the health regulator, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (Nice), has announced. The reason for late diagnos...