Cancer: Waiting Lists

(asked on 12th July 2023) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Will Quince Portrait
Will Quince
This question was answered on 19th July 2023

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

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