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Stage-four cancer patients are being forced to cancel vital appointments because their ambulances are failing to show up.
Falck UK, one of the biggest private ambulance providers to the NHS, is repeatedly failing to pick up patients for appointments or leaving them waiting for hours to be taken home after gruelling treatment.
NHS sources at the Royal Marsden in West London, a leading cancer hospital, said that its ambulance system was in ‘chaos’ after being outsourced to Falck.
David Silver, who has stage-four cancer, said he has had to cancel two appointments this month because Falck drivers have failed to turn up.
Mr Silver, 80, said: ‘We go to the Marsden with a death sentence hanging over us and we are hoping for a reprieve. In recent times the transport situation has become deplorable.
‘They
