Cancer treatment waiting time performance in Scotland has fallen to a new record low, with a leading charity saying the situation has gone “from bad, to worse, to dreadful”.

NHS statistics showed that between April and June this year, only 76.3 per cent of patients began treatment for cancer within 62 days of first being referred for investigation.

The Scottish Government’s official target is for 95 per cent of patients to be treated within this timeframe, a standard which has not been met since the end of 2012.

Macmillan Cancer Support pointed out that performance against the 62-day target has declined by 7.4 per cent since the last quarter of 2019, before the Covid pandemic struck.

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