Cancer: Diagnosis
(asked on 23rd January 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of patients who received an urgent GP referral for a suspected cancer in the last six months have (a) been diagnosed with cancer and (b) received confirmation that cancer has not been detected within 28 days of their referral.
The following table shows the amount of people that were either informed that they had cancer, or received an all clear, in the past six months for which data is available, namely between June and November 2023, and the proportions of people that were told this within 28 days from an urgent referral:
Pathway End Reason | Total told | Told within 28 days | Percentage told outcome within 28 days |
Diagnosis of cancer | 91,369 | 46,841 | 51.3% |
Ruling out of cancer | 1,379,738 | 1,006,233 | 72.9% |
Source: NHS England