Remission? Try Intermission: NHS Turns Cancer Care into a Waiting Game

Why being diagnosed in Britain means your tumour gets more checkups than you do — and other bureaucratic wonders from the land of lukewarm croissants and lost referrals.

Once upon a time, if you had a lump growing somewhere it shouldn’t, the NHS would swing into action like a Formula One pit crew on espresso. You’d be scanned, biopsied and sliced open with a level of urgency normally reserved for politicians spotting a TV camera.