Table 5
Delays in the cancer patient’s journey
| Clinic | Delay (days) (median (range)) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No of cancers | PGP | OP | HD | TD | |
| *One patient had an unknown date of onset of symptoms. | |||||
| †Two patients were excluded who made a decision not to have treatment at the outpatient appointment and would have been scored as having a zero delay in the hospital part of their cancer journey. If they had been included, the overall values would have changed little. | |||||
| TWS, two week standard clinic; CSOP, colorectal surgical outpatient clinic; PGP, patient+GP delay; OP, outpatient delay; HD, hospital delay; TD, total delay; m, months. | |||||
| TWS | 65 | 57 (1–3640) | 12 (5–64) | 56†(21–274) | 161 (5.3 m) (54–3821) |
| CSOP | |||||
| Higher risk criteria | 27 | 104 (2–1083) | 28 (4–203) | 49†(14–332) | 252 (8.6 m) (55–1188) |
| Low risk criteria | 12 | 65 (15–702) | 26 (6–96) | 49 (16–79) | 133 (4.5 m) (38–749) |
| Total | 40* | 95 (2–1083) | 27 (4–203) | 49 (14–332) | 227 (7.7 m) (38–1188) |
| Total | 105 | 76 (1–3640) | 13 (4–203) | 55 (14–332) | 171 (5.7 m) (38–3821) |
