Jamie Reed – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health
The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jamie Reed on 2016-06-07.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what proportion of cancer patients in (a) England and (b) Copeland constituency received their first cancer treatment within 62 days of an urgent GP referral in 2015-16.
Jane Ellison
The information is shown in the following table.
Proportion of patients that started first treatment for all cancers within 62 days of an urgent general practitioner referral in 2015-16
|
England |
NHS Cumbria Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG)1 |
|
|
2015-16 |
82.4% |
79.2% |
Source: Cancer waiting times, NHS England
Notes:
1NHS Cumbria CCG is the CCG responsible for commissioning care for the residents of the constituency of Copeland. Data is not available by parliamentary constituency.
