I have spent my career working in hospitals.

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I know pressure is part of the job. I know NHS staff will always go further for patients than anyone could reasonably expect.

What I find increasingly difficult to accept is watching patients potentially come to harm because we simply do not have enough doctors.

For the first time, our workforce census has revealed something deeply troubling. Eight in ten radiology leaders told us they have seen patients' conditions worsen because of staff shortages. Half of cancer centre leaders said the same. These are not concerns about targets or performance measures. These are experienced clinical leaders telling us that delays are affecting patients' health.

Many of those patients are waiting for answers. Others are waiting for treatment.

Last year, nearly one million scan results took longer than a month to be reported. About one in five patients waited more than six weeks for a diagnostic scan or test. Across the........

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