Julie Cooper – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the Department of Health

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Julie Cooper on 2016-03-14.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, how many cancer patients in Lancashire started treatment within 62 days of an urgent referral from a GP in 2015.

Jane Ellison

Data on the number of patients that started first treatment for all cancers within 62 days of an urgent general practitioner referral in Lancashire clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in 2015 is published by NHS England on a monthly basis and is available at the following link:

https://www.england.nhs.uk/statistics/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/02/Cancer-Waiting-Times-Provider-Time-Series-Q4-2008-09-to-Q3-2015-16-Provider-based-XLSX-1.6MB.xlsx

The relevant CCGs are as follows:

– NHS Blackburn with Darwen CCG

– NHS Blackpool CCG

– NHS Chorley And South Ribble CCG

– NHS East Lancashire CCG

– NHS Fylde & Wyre CCG

– NHS Greater Preston CCG

– NHS Lancashire North CCG

– NHS West Lancashire CCG