Gastrointestinal Cancer: Health Services
(asked on 1st March 2024) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the average monthly proportion of lower gastrointestinal cancer patients started treatment within 62 days of referral for each year figures are available.
This question was answered on 20th March 2024
The following table shows the average monthly proportion of lower gastrointestinal cancer patient starting treatment within 62 days of referral:
Year | Average monthly proportion |
2017/18 | 72.8% |
2018/19 | 70.0% |
2019/20 | 66.7% |
2020/21 | 50.4% |
2021/22 | 48.5% |
2022/23 | 41.7% |
Source: NHS England Cancer Waiting Times data