Outrageous (Telegraph, £). The start of the piece:

“Middle-aged men have been stripped of their right to tests that help detect prostate cancer.

Men aged over 50 will no longer be entitled to a blood test to help identify the disease, with GPs instead deciding who is given one.

Experts described the decision as an “outrageous betrayal”.

Until now, any man over the age of 50 has been entitled to a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test via their GP. They do not have to have symptoms.

But new guidance removes that right, instead leaving family doctors to decide whether testing is appropriate.

Lord Cameron, the former prime minister, who was treated for prostate cancer after taking a test, said it was a “backwards step”.”

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