Cancer: Medical Treatments
(asked on 18th July 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of cancer patients in (a) England and (b) Bury St Edmunds constituency received their first cancer treatment within 62 days of an urgent GP referral in (i) 2014-15 and (ii) 2015-16.
The Handbook to the NHS Constitution contains a pledge that 85% of patients have a maximum two month (62-day) wait from urgent referral for suspected cancer to first treatment for all cancers.
The information requested is in the table below:
Percentage of patients in England and Bury St Edmunds constituency1 that waited 62 days from a general practitioner urgent referral to a first treatment for cancer, 2014-15 and 2015-16
| England | NHS Ipswich and East Suffolk CCG | NHS West Suffolk CCG |
2014-15 | 83.4% | 85.8% | 84.9% |
2015-16 | 82.4% | 85.2% | 83.3% |
Source: Cancer waiting times, NHS England
Notes:
1 Bury St Edmunds constituency has two clinical commissioning groups (CCG):
NHS Ipswich and East Suffolk CCG
NHS West Suffolk CCG