PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Pancreatic Cancer: Health Services (29 June 2015)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what estimate he has made of the proportion of newly-diagnosed pancreatic cancer patients who start treatment within 62 days of diagnosis; and if he will make a statement.

Asked by:
Sir Nicholas Dakin (Labour)

National statistics are published on the proportion of patients who begin first treatment within 62 days from urgent referral for suspected cancer. No equivalent statistics are published for patients who start treatment within 62 days of diagnosis.

The data are available for major cancer groups. NHS England advises that releasing data at the more detailed cancer site levels would be reliant on detailed clinical coding and would risk disclosing patient identities.

Answered by:
Jane Ellison (Conservative)
7 July 2015