Healthcare | Why cancer screening must form part of employee benefit & wellbeing programmes

Tracey Ward, Head of Business Development & Marketing at Generali UK Employee Benefits interviews Professor Gordon Wishart, Chief Medical Officer at Check4Cancer

It stands to reason that when a machine is operating at maximum capacity, there’s little opportunity to increase output without improvements to its design. So, it is with NHS cancer services right now.

Faced with around 3 million missed screenings last year and tens of thousands of undiagnosed patients¹ the NHS’ task of trying to simultaneously tackle the backlog while operating ‘normal’ service levels seems like mission impossible.

This has led experts to call for a complete overhaul to cancer services. One of those experts is Professor Gordon Wishart of Check4Cancer, Generali UK’s wellbeing partner, with whom we spoke recently to gain his insights into the public sector task in hand, and what employers could be doing to help their people now.