Wednesday 02 April 2025
Internal Reference Number: FOI_8375
Date Request Received: 09/01/2025 00:00:00
Date Request Replied To: 30/01/2025 00:00:00
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Request Summary: cancer waiting times.
Request Category: Legal
| Question Number 1: Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000, please can you provide me with information on cancer waiting times. The total number of people who waited for 62-days or longer from urgent referral to beginning treatment for a) stomach, b) lung, c) pancreatic, d) brain, e) liver, f) oesophageal cancer broken down by type of cancer in each of the years I) 2019, ii) 2020, iii) 2021, iv) 2022, v) 2023, vi) 2024 | |
| Answer To Question 1: Please see our response to all FOI questions in the Excel spreadsheet attached. Please note that small numbers have been suppressed to protect patient confidentiality. To accompany this answer to question 1 please also see the documents listed below:  FOI_8375 - Cancer Wait Times - response.xlsx | |
| Question Number 2: The proportion of people who waited for 62-days or longer from urgent referral to beginning treatment for a) stomach, b) lung, c) pancreatic, d) brain, e) liver, f) oesophageal cancer broken down by type of cancer in each of the years I) 2019, ii) 2020, iii) 2021, iv) 2022, v) 2023, vi) 2024 | |
| Answer To Question 2: Please see our response to all FOI questions in the Excel spreadsheet attached. Please note that small numbers have been suppressed to protect patient confidentiality. | |
| Question Number 3: The total number of people who waited for 124-days or longer from urgent referral to beginning treatment for a) stomach, b) lung, c) pancreatic, d) brain, e) liver, f) oesophageal cancer broken down by type of cancer in each of the years I) 2019, ii) 2020, iii) 2021, iv) 2022, v) 2023, vi) 2024 | |
| Answer To Question 3: Please see our response to all FOI questions in the Excel spreadsheet attached. Please note that small numbers have been suppressed to protect patient confidentiality. | |
| Question Number 4: The proportion of people who waited for 124-days or longer from urgent referral to beginning treatment for a) stomach, b) lung, c) pancreatic, d) brain, e) liver, f) oesophageal cancer broken down by type of cancer in each of the years I) 2019, ii) 2020, iii) 2021, iv) 2022, v) 2023, vi) 2024 | |
| Answer To Question 4: Please see our response to all FOI questions in the Excel spreadsheet attached. Please note that small numbers have been suppressed to protect patient confidentiality. | |
| Question Number 5: The total number of people who waited for 372-days or longer from urgent referral to beginning treatment for a) stomach, b) lung, c) pancreatic, d) brain, e) liver, f) oesophageal cancer broken down by type of cancer in each of the years I) 2019, ii) 2020, iii) 2021, iv) 2022, v) 2023, vi) 2024 | |
| Answer To Question 5: Please see our response to all FOI questions in the Excel spreadsheet attached. Please note that small numbers have been suppressed to protect patient confidentiality. | |
| Question Number 6: The proportion of people who waited for 372-days or longer from urgent referral to beginning treatment for a) stomach, b) lung, c) pancreatic, d) brain, e) liver, f) oesophageal cancer broken down by type of cancer in each of the years I) 2019, ii) 2020, iii) 2021, iv) 2022, v) 2023, vi) 2024 | |
| Answer To Question 6: Please see our response to all FOI questions in the Excel spreadsheet attached. Please note that small numbers have been suppressed to protect patient confidentiality. | |
| Question Number 7: The longest time someone has waited, who is currently still waiting, from urgent referral to beginning treatment for a) stomach, b) lung, c) pancreatic, d) brain, e) liver, f) oesophageal cancer. | |
| Answer To Question 7: Please see our response to all FOI questions in the Excel spreadsheet attached. Please note that small numbers have been suppressed to protect patient confidentiality. | |
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