Written question asked by Nicholas Dakin (Labour) on Monday, 5 November 2012, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 21 November 2012. It was answered by Anna Soubry (Conservative) on Wednesday, 21 November 2012 on behalf of the Department of Health.
Pancreatic Cancer
- Question
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will make it his policy to record statistics related to pancreatic cancer referral for suspected cancer and waiting times for treatment separately from other upper gastro-intestinal cancers.
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- Answer
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The Department has no plans to identify separately patients with pancreatic cancer in the statistics on waiting times for suspected and diagnosed cancer patients.
The publication of these statistics is managed in line with the United Kingdom Statistics Authority's Code of Practice for Official Statistics. An assessment of the quality of the data used to create these statistics and the risk of patient disclosure was carried out prior to finalising the current format. This assessment concluded that due to potential for error in clinical coding within the patient records and small numbers of patients in some areas there was a risk of misrepresentation or disclosure of patient identities if all tumour types were published separately.
Secondary information
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- Written question
- Reference
- 127383; 553 cc513-4W
- Session
- 2012-13
- Subjects
- Cancer Statistics Pancreatic cancer
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