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.
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/