A Cancer Referral To Treatment Period is a REFERRAL TO TREATMENT PERIOD.
The service standard for referral to treatment for cancer is that the PATIENT must receive First Definitive Treatment within 62 days (or 31 days for Acute Leukaemia, testicular, and children's cancers), rather than within 18 Weeks.
A PATIENT will have a Cancer Referral To Treatment Period in the following circumstances:
- The PATIENT was referred to secondary care with suspected cancer by a GENERAL MEDICAL PRACTITIONER or GENERAL DENTAL PRACTITIONER, where the PRIORITY TYPE of the SERVICE REQUEST was National Code 'Two Week Wait'
A Cancer Referral To Treatment Period is the period of time between CANCER REFERRAL TO TREATMENT PERIOD START DATE and either:
- the TREATMENT START DATE FOR CANCER, where a PATIENT diagnosed with a cancer condition (see the Department of Health guidance at Cancer Waiting Times Documentation and Links) receives First Definitive Treatment, or
- the DATE FIRST SEEN where a PATIENT, although referred with suspected cancer by a GENERAL MEDICAL PRACTITIONER or GENERAL DENTAL PRACTITIONER, is subsequently diagnosed with a non-cancer condition (even if the non-cancer diagnosis is confirmed after the DATE FIRST SEEN), or
A Cancer Referral To Treatment Period does NOT complete automatically if the PATIENT does not attend the first APPOINTMENT during the Cancer Referral To Treatment Period. WAITING TIME ADJUSTMENT (FIRST SEEN) is used to align waiting times monitoring with the service standard for 18 Weeks.
Information recorded for a Cancer Referral To Treatment Period includes:
CANCER REFERRAL TO TREATMENT PERIOD START DATE
This supporting information is also known by these names:
| Context | Alias |
|---|---|
| plural | Cancer Referral To Treatment Periods |