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Breast Cancer: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that 85 per cent of breast cancer patients start treatment within 62 days of urgent referral.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 7 Jan 2026
Target answer date: 12 Jan 2026
Answer: 19 Jan 2026 · 12 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

7 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that 85 per cent of breast cancer patients start treatment within 62 days of urgent referral.
12 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Jan 2026
Answer published
Cancer patients are waiting too long for diagnosis and treatment, and improving performance against cancer waiting time standards, including the 62-day standard, is a priority for the Government.It is a priority for the Government to support the National ...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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