PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Health: Screening (15 December 2014)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when the median wait from test request to test result was for (a) abdominal ultrasound, (b) flexi-sigmoidoscopy, (c) colonoscopy and (d) brain MRI in (i) all tests requested and (ii) GP-requested tests in the last year for which figures are available.

Asked by:
Debbie Abrahams (Labour)

Information on the median waits from test request to test result is only available for abdominal ultrasound and brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans. These data are shown in the table below.

Median waiting times (days) from referral to test and test to result for abdominal ultrasound and brain MRI scans, 2013-14

	Median wait for all referral sources (in days)	Median wait for GP requested tests (in days)
Abdominal Ultrasound:
- Referral to test	15	24
- Test to result	2	3
Brain MRI
- Referral to test	21	25
- Test to result	0	0

Source: Diagnostic Imaging Dataset – NHS England

Answered by:
Jane Ellison (Conservative)
18 December 2014