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Tuesday 22 October 2024
Salisbury Foundation Trust

FOI_7038

Internal Reference Number: FOI_7038

Date Request Received: 21/02/2023 00:00:00

Date Request Replied To: 13/03/2023 00:00:00

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Request Summary: Longest cancer waits

Request Category: Private Individuals



 
Question Number 1:
What was the longest a patient at your Trust waited (in weeks/days) for -

a) a first consultant appointment, following a GP urgent referral on the two week wait pathway;

b) being told they have cancer, or cancer being definitively excluded, following a GP urgent referral on the two week wait pathway;

c) a first treatment for cancer, following a GP urgent referral on the two week wait pathway;

d) a diagnostic test or procedure, following a GP urgent referral on the two week wait pathway

In each of the following calendar years – 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022?
 
Answer To Question 1:
Please see the Excel spreadsheet attached which contains our response to both questions. Please note our responses are listed in days.

To accompany this answer to question 1 please also see the documents listed below:

 11211 - FOI_7038 - Longest Cancer Waits FOR ISSUE.xlsx
 
Question Number 2:
At the end of January 2023, what was the longest a patient at your Trust had been waiting (in weeks/days) for -

a) a first consultant appointment, following a GP urgent referral on the two week wait pathway;

b) being told they have cancer, or cancer being definitively excluded, following a GP urgent referral on the two week wait pathway;

c) a first treatment for cancer, following a GP urgent referral on the two week wait pathway;

d) a diagnostic test or procedure, following a GP urgent referral on the two week wait pathway?
 
Answer To Question 2:
See response to Q1
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