Breast cancer experience has wider implications

The implications of the fast track referral policy for suspected breast cancer raise issues for the NHS that go beyond this disease.1 2 The existence of two queues for investigation defies the sensible observation that to manage multiple queues for a particular service is inefficient.3

Potter et al list the criteria by which general practitioners (GPs) are expected to identify patients for urgent attention.1 Their paper shows that the sensitivity and …