Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people were on the (a) 31 day cancer Patient Tracking List and (b) 62 day cancer Patient Tracking List as of 22 March 2022; and how many people were taken off each of those lists in each of the last 12 months.
This information is not available in the format requested. The cancer Patient Tracking List (PTL) is a monitoring tool used by hospitals for management of their waiting lists and is not centrally validated. A patient is removed from the 31 day or 62 day pathway and PTL monitoring when:
- the organisation communicates to the patient that a cancer diagnosis has been excluded;
- a first definitive treatment has been completed or permitted enabling treatment;
- a patient declines treatment;
- a patient chooses to receive treatment privately; and
- death occurs before treatment.