Keir Starmer accuses Tories of ‘moving goalposts’ on NHS cancer care

Proposals to streamline' treatment, which government says are clinically led, would cut number of targets from nine to three

Keir Starmer has accused the government of moving the goalposts" as the number of NHS cancer waiting time targets is expected to be reduced.

The government has been consulting on the proposed measures to streamline NHS cancer care, which would replace the nine existing cancer targets with just three. The target of all patients seeing a specialist within two weeks of an urgent referral for cancer tests by the GP is expected to be scrapped.