Cancer: Diagnosis
(asked on 5th October 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time is for a patient to be diagnosed by a cancer specialist.
This question was answered on 20th October 2020
Data on pathway timescales for different types of cancer can be found on the National Health Service website at the following link:
https://www.cancerdata.nhs.uk/median_pathways/tool
The Cancer Alliance Data Evidence and Analysis Service has calculated the median pathway length of 15 types of cancer for patients diagnosed in 2013-2018.