Skin Diseases: Health Services

(asked on 6th September 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 his Department has made of the potential impact of the two-week wait cancer referral target on referral waiting times for inflammatory skin conditions.


Answered by
Will Quince Portrait
Will Quince
This question was answered on 29th September 2022

The Department has made no specific assessment. The two-week cancer referral target for cancer reflects the importance of early diagnosis and treatment. Patients should wait no longer than 18 weeks for all other non-urgent, consultant-led treatments, including for inflammatory skin conditions.

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