Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Diagnosis

(asked on 5th January 2024) - View Source

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.


Answered by
Andrew Stephenson Portrait
Andrew Stephenson
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 11th January 2024

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.

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