Cancer: Blackpool
(asked on 19th March 2015) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many people in Blackpool NHS Trust area had to wait longer than 62 days to start cancer treatment after being referred by their GP in (a) 2010 and (b) 2015.
The information is not available in the format requested. Such information as is available is in the following table. Data for 2015 is not yet available.
2010 | |||||
Q4 2009/10 | Q1 2010/11 | Q2 2010/11 | Q3 2010/11 | ||
Number of patients waiting longer than 62 days from an urgent GP referral to a first definitive treatment for cancer | 25 | 19.5 | 31 | 25.5 | |
Source: NHS England
Notes: non-integer numbers are due to the responsibility for the patient pathway being shared across two providers, each getting 0.5 of a patient record.