Diagnosis: Standards
(asked on 20th July 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the current diagnosis target for the Faster Diagnosis Standard.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 5th September 2022
The Faster Diagnosis Standard was introduced in April 2020 with an initial performance threshold of 75% as services recover from the pandemic. NHS England keeps this threshold under review. The ‘Delivery plan for tackling the COVID-19 backlog of elective care’ states that NHS England aims to achieve the 75% Faster Diagnosis Standard nationally by March 2024.