Thursday 02 May 2024
Internal Reference Number: FOI_7773
Date Request Received: 20/02/2024 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 12/03/2024 00:00:00
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Request Summary: Cancer treatment wait times
Request Category: Political Parties
| Question Number 1: I’d like to request the following information under the Freedom of Information Act on cancer treatment wait times at your trust. For each of these questions I am looking for figures consistent with those used for the 62-day referral to treatment standard, i.e. how long in calendar days it took for a patient to start treatment after their referral for suspected cancer and diagnosis, as measured from the date of the urgent referral. The number of patients who waited a) over 124 days (i.e. 4 months) and b) over 186 days (i.e. 6 months) between an urgent referral from their GP and starting their first treatment for cancer. Please can you provide figures for each of the past four calendar years (2023, 2022, 2021, 2020). | |
| Answer To Question 1: Year Type Q1a) Number of Patients Waiting over 124 days Q1b) Number of Patients Waiting over 186 days 2020 62 Day Standard 18 2 2021 62 Day Standard 18 3 2022 62 Day Standard 34 4 2023 62 Day Standard 45 9 | |
| Question Number 2: The single longest wait in days for a patient to start cancer treatment, as measured from the date of the urgent referral, in the 2023 calendar year? | |
| Answer To Question 2: 384 days | |
| Question Number 3: The current longest wait in days for a patient still waiting to start their cancer treatment, as measured from the date of urgent referral. | |
| Answer To Question 3: 223 days up to 31st Jan 2024 | |
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