scott cadger, head of underwriting and claims strategy at scottish widows, said the industry needed to do more to educate the public on the merits of protection insurance. .
the data also revealed 66% of trusts who replied had at least one cancer patient forced to wait over six months to start treatment, and 69% had a worse longest wait than in 2010. .
the longest one patient waited for treatment following a gp referral in 2017 was 541 days - against a target of 62 days. .