Monday 29 April 2024
Internal Reference Number: FOI_7038
Date Request Received: 21/02/2023 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 13/03/2023 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Longest cancer waits
Request Category: Private Individuals
| Question Number 1: What was the longest a patient at your Trust waited (in weeks/days) for - a) a first consultant appointment, following a GP urgent referral on the two week wait pathway; b) being told they have cancer, or cancer being definitively excluded, following a GP urgent referral on the two week wait pathway; c) a first treatment for cancer, following a GP urgent referral on the two week wait pathway; d) a diagnostic test or procedure, following a GP urgent referral on the two week wait pathway In each of the following calendar years – 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022? | |
| Answer To Question 1: Please see the Excel spreadsheet attached which contains our response to both questions. Please note our responses are listed in days. To accompany this answer to question 1 please also see the documents listed below:  11211 - FOI_7038 - Longest Cancer Waits FOR ISSUE.xlsx | |
| Question Number 2: At the end of January 2023, what was the longest a patient at your Trust had been waiting (in weeks/days) for - a) a first consultant appointment, following a GP urgent referral on the two week wait pathway; b) being told they have cancer, or cancer being definitively excluded, following a GP urgent referral on the two week wait pathway; c) a first treatment for cancer, following a GP urgent referral on the two week wait pathway; d) a diagnostic test or procedure, following a GP urgent referral on the two week wait pathway? | |
| Answer To Question 2: See response to Q1 | |
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