PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Cancer: Health Services (15 October 2021)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he expects the percentage of NHS patients starting treatment within 62 days after GP Urgent Suspected Cancer Referral to rise above the 85% target; and what steps he plans to take to help tackle the cancer care backlog.

Asked by:
Charlotte Nichols (Labour)

We are committed to the recovery of cancer services by the end of March 2022. We have dedicated an additional £1 billion for elective and cancer services and the National Health Service is expand diagnostic and treatment capacity to meet increasing levels of referrals and treatment.

Answered by:
Maria Caulfield (Conservative)
26 October 2021