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.
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.