Cancer: Health Services
(asked on 25th January 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he make an estimate of the number of patients who have opted to pay for medical advice and appointments following the postponement of their appointments on the NHS Cancer Pathway.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 3rd March 2022
We have no plans to do so. There have been over four million urgent referrals and over 960,000 people receiving cancer treatment between March 2020 and November 2021. First and subsequent treatments have been maintained at 94% of usual levels between March 2020 and November 2021.