Written question asked by Lord Barker of Battle (Conservative) on Tuesday, 15 October 2002, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Tuesday, 5 November 2002. It was answered by Hazel Blears (Labour) on Tuesday, 5 November 2002 on behalf of the Department of Health.
Dept of Health
- Question
- To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what plans he has to include figures for patients awaiting diagnostic tests in the national cancer waiting lists currently published by the NHS.
- Answer
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Gregory Barker: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what plans he has to include figures for patients awaiting diagnostic tests in the national cancer waiting lists currently published by the NHS. [75771] Ms Blears: The NHS Cancer Plan set out waiting time targets for cancer. These targets aim to reduce the amount of time patients have to wait from urgent referral to beginning treatment, which will include the diagnostic phase, and from diagnosis of cancer to first treatment. We have no plans to include waiting times for individual diagnostic tests in cancer waiting times monitoring.
Secondary information
- Type
- Written question
- Reference
- 75771; 392 c243W;392 c255W
- Session
- 2001-02
- Subjects
- Cancer Diagnosis Health services NHS Patients Waiting lists Screening
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