Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average time is for a patient with suspected (a) Crohn’s disease and (b) ulcerative colitis to receive a diagnosis.
The data is not routinely held in the format requested. Data is centrally collected for time from referral to a diagnostic test, but not referral to diagnosis. It is also collected by test type and not the purpose of the test.