experts say years of cuts to nhs budgets and staff has led to patients waiting longer for ­chemotherapy and radiotherapy..

"their serious adverse incident process has been wholly inadequate and what we have heard this week is a damning indictment of the western trust..

the total amount paid out in critical illness claims was £75.19m, with cancer accounting for 74 per cent of claims from women, mainly breast cancer, alongside 51 per cent from men..