Cancer: Health Services

(asked on 3rd December 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to his oral contribution of 1 December 2020, Official Report column 262, in which (a) clinical commissioning group and (b) local authority areas he has managed to keep cancer services going at over 100% of their normal last year.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 11th December 2020

NHS England and NHS Improvement collect and publish official cancer waiting times data by clinical commissioning group but not at local authority level.

The attached table shows activity compared to last year, September 2019 compared to September 2020 for general practitioner referrals to first appointment to see a cancer specialist and the 31-day decision to first treatment for cancer standard, by clinical commissioning group.

The Government has been clear from the start of the pandemic that cancer treatment and care must continue.

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