Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have waited for more than 62 days for an urgent referral for cancer to be diagnosed or ruled out in the last year.
The following table shows, as of 18 July 2023, the total number of people who received a diagnosis of confirmed cancer or cancer definitively excluded, and of these how many were given the outcome after 62 days.
Date | Received diagnosis after day 62 | Total receiving diagnosis |
Jun 2022 | 17,296 | 229,494 |
Jul 2022 | 17,351 | 233,522 |
Aug 2022 | 18,464 | 250,561 |
Sep 2022 | 21,566 | 245,351 |
Oct 2022 | 22,538 | 247,248 |
Nov 2022 | 22,535 | 269,256 |
Dec 2022 | 16,794 | 219,492 |
Jan 2023 | 23,117 | 239,458 |
Feb 2023 | 18,407 | 232,393 |
Mar 2023 | 14,885 | 262,950 |
Apr 2023 | 13,571 | 215,274 |
May 2023 | 17,552 | 246,948 |
Total | 224,076 | 2,891,947 |