Cancer Waiting Times
- Abstract
- Waiting times for patients with suspected cancer and those subsequently diagnosed with cancer (performance against two-week urgent referral wait, one month diagnosis to treatment target).
- Main Topics/Subject Category
- Cancer, waiting time
- Variables
- Number of people seen and treated by: two week wait by suspected cancer , all cancers two week wait, 31-day (diagnosis to treatment) wait for first treatment: all cancers, 31-day (diagnosis to treatment) wait for first treatment: breast cancer, 62-day (urgent GP referral to treatment) wait for first treatment: all cancers, 62-day (urgent GP referral to treatment) wait for first treatment: breast cancer, 31-day (urgent GP referral to treatment) wait for first treatment for rare cancers, 31-day wait for second or subsequent treatment: surgery, 31-day wait for second or subsequent treatment: anti cancer drug treatments, 62-day wait for first treatment from consultant upgrade: all cancers, 62-day wait for first treatment from consultant screening service referral: all cancers.
- Keywords
- Waiting time, treatment, referral, chemotherapy, radiation, cancer drugs, cancer, breast cancer, children's cancer, lung cancer, haematological malignancies including leukaemia, upper gastrointestinal cancer, lower gastrointestinal cancer, skin cancers, gynaecological cancers, brain/central nervous system tumours, urological cancers, head and neck cancers, sarcomas
- Identifier Variables
- SHA, PCT, NHS trust, NHS foundation trust
- Economic/Subject Categories
- Performance
- Area of Health System
- Secondary care
- Disease Area
- Cancer
- Data Available
- Risk behaviours, Socio-economic, Demographic
- Data collecting organization (s)
- Department of Health
- Data Type
- Administrative
- National/Regional
- National
- Coverage (date of field work)
- 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
- Unit of Analysis
- Aggregate
- Sample
- Patients from all NHS organisations
- Availability
- Department of Health
- Conditions of Access
- Free access
- Link
- http://www.dh.gov.uk/[…]/index.htm
- Contact
- cancer-waits@dh.gsi.gov.uk
- Publications
- Spurgeon P, Barwell F and Kerr D. Waiting times for cancer patients in England after general practitioners' referrals: retrospective national survey. BMJ 2000; 320: 838-839