With the NHS cancer target that patients should start treatment within 62 days of urgent referral having only been met for one month in the last three years, why is performance against this target worse than against others? | Nuffield Trust
This new QualityWatch blog from Jessica Morris of the Nuffield Trust looks at why NHS performance against the two month GP referral to first treatment for cancer target is worse than the other targets.
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Targets to treat patients referred with suspected cancer were missed during every quarter of the last year, latest NHS England figures show. According to government guidelines, the NHS in England aims to treat at least 85 per cent of patients within 62 days of being referred by a GP with suspected cancer. But only 83.8 per cent did so during the period from October to December. This was a slight increase on the 83.5 per cent seen during the previous three months, but means that the target was missed during the all four quarters of 2014.
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