Cancer: Health Services

(asked on 2nd March 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they will maintain the right to be seen by a cancer specialist within a maximum of 2 weeks from GP referral for urgent referrals where cancer is suspected, contained in the Handbook to the NHS Constitution for England, when new operating standards are introduced.


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Lord Bethell
This question was answered on 11th March 2020

The clinically-led review of National Health Service access standards is ongoing. NHS England and NHS Improvement’s final recommendations to the Government are due by the spring.

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