Waiting times for suspected and diagnosed cancer patients
The NHS has specific targets for treating patients with either suspected or confirmed cancer quickly.
All patients referred to a specialist for suspected cancer must be seen within 2 weeks. For patients diagnosed with cancer, treatment should commence within 31 days. A further metric tracks how many patients begin initial treatment within 62 days.
For patients requiring more than one type of treatment, e.g. surgery, chemotherapy or radiotherapy, the data also tracks how many commenced second or subsequent treatment within 31 days.
The NHS has specific targets for treating patients with either suspected or confirmed cancer quickly. All patients referred to a specialist for suspected cancer must be seen within 2 weeks….
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The cancer waiting times data provides information on the number of patients seen by a specialist for suspected cancer or treated for confirmed cancer. The data also shows the number and proportion of patients seen and treated within the key national standard waiting time targets.
The key measures for cancer waiting times are that all patients referred to a specialist for suspected cancer are seen within two weeks. For patients diagnosed with cancer, treatment should commence with 31 days. Additional measures examine how many patients begin initial treatment within 62 days. For patients requiring more than one type of treatment for cancer e.g. surgery, chemotherapy or radiotherapy, the data shows how many commenced second or subsequent treatment within 31 days.
Data is sourced from NHS England’s monthly Cancer Waiting Times dataset, for which detailed notes and the core datasets are available here.
NHS peer groups are defined using NHS Digital’s Peer Finder Tool which identifies each NHS Trust’s closest ten peers based on a list of variables such as attendances, deprivation, patient profile and location profile. Further details are available on the NHS Digital website here.
All data used in these visualisations is available in the public domain and reproduced under the relevant Open Government licence.
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• Contains NHS England and NHS Digital data © Crown copyright and database right 2020
• Contains MSOA names © Open Parliament copyright and database right 2020
• Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right 2020
• Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2020
• Contains Public Health England data © Crown copyright and database right 2020
• Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0
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