Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Diagnosis

(asked on 25th February 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuit to the Answer of 24 February 2021 to Question 141963, in what format his Department and NHS England collects data on the average time for a patient with (a) Crohn’s disease and (b) ulcerative colitis to be diagnosed in Harrow East constituency compared to the national average in the last 12 months.


Answered by
Edward Argar Portrait
Edward Argar
Minister of State (Ministry of Justice)
This question was answered on 12th March 2021

NHS England and NHS Improvement have advised that their current outpatient systems are a generic list of patients waiting without a diagnosis and are measured from a previous appointment to the first outpatient appointment or diagnostic procedure. As a patient may be seen by several consultants before diagnosis, many with differing waiting times, we do not hold specific information on average wait times for people diagnosed with Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis.

In addition, NHS England and NHS Improvement have advised that information is not held at a constituency level as figures are collected working to general practitioner practice boundaries that do not align with constituency boundaries.

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