Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what the average wait from referral to treatment is for patients categorised as urgent who are not on the two-week cancer pathway.

The information is not collected in the format requested.

NHS England collects and publishes monthly data on referral to treatment (RTT) consultant-led waiting times. These include information on the average (median) time waited by patients who started treatment during the month. Information is collected on all elective patients on an RTT pathway, and does not identify those patients who have been categorised as ‘urgent’. Patients on an RTT pathway may also be on a cancer pathway but this also cannot be identified in RTT data.