Cancer: Health Services

(asked on 1st February 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many cancer treatment referrals were made in each year from (a) 2016 to (b) 2020.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 8th February 2021

The following table shows the number of two week waits from general practitioner (GP) urgent referral to first consultant appointment from 2015/16.

Year

Number of two week waits from GP urgent referral to first consultant appointment

2015/16

1,714,017

2016/17

1,867,303

2017/18

1,935,054

2018/19

2,245,524

2019/20

2,386,815

2020/21 (April to November 2020)

1,299,524

Source: https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/statistical-work-areas/cancer-waiting-times/

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