Professor Riste?rd ? Laoide:

All cancer patients are prioritised. The rapid-access clinics were developed so that if anybody has a symptom or sign of cancer, he or she can gain diagnostic access rapidly. The figure 250,000 relates to everything, from back and knee pain to osteoarthritis in the shoulder. It is broad. Clinically, what happens in the X-ray department, as I know as a practising radiologist, is that when someone expresses concern to us that a patient may have lung cancer, that patient gets the diagnostics.