PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Cancer: Health Services (25 January 2022)

Question Asked

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he make an estimate of the number of patients who have opted to pay for medical advice and appointments following the postponement of their appointments on the NHS Cancer Pathway.

Asked by:
Navendu Mishra (Labour)

Answer

We have no plans to do so. There have been over four million urgent referrals and over 960,000 people receiving cancer treatment between March 2020 and November 2021. First and subsequent treatments have been maintained at 94% of usual levels between March 2020 and November 2021.


Answered by:
Maria Caulfield (Conservative)
3 March 2022

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