Cancer patients challenge NHS in court over long journeys for treatment

Call for a judicial review under the Equality Act may have far-reaching implications for anyone with a disability Cancer patients who have to endure long journeys to receive their daily treatment are to make legal history by contesting their health authority’s decision not to provide radiotherapy services at their local hospital. The patients, some with terminal cancer, make round trips of up to six hours a day to have their 10-minute radiotherapy treatment at hospitals in the north and east of Essex. The debilitating treatment, which lasts for up to six weeks, means they cannot drive and are dependent on others for transport.

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Cancer patients challenge NHS in court over long journeys for treatment