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NHS trusts with the worst 62-day cancer waits

The share of patients starting cancer treatment within 62 days of an urgent referral, by trust — worst performers first. The NHS standard is 85%. Trusts treating very few cancer patients are excluded.

122 trusts · Worst first. Source: NHS England Cancer Waiting Times.

#TrustWithin 62 days
1Lewisham And Greenwich NHS TrustLondon31.9%
2The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation TrustKing's Lynn48.6%
3Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustSheffield49.1%
4Torbay And South Devon NHS Foundation TrustTorquay53.6%
5Mid And South Essex NHS Foundation TrustWestcliff-On-Sea54.0%
6Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustHull54.4%
7University Hospitals Of Derby And Burton NHS Foundation TrustDerby55.2%
8Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation TrustMilton Keynes55.8%
9Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS TrustWorcester57.0%
10United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustLincoln58.9%
11North Tees And Hartlepool NHS Foundation TrustHartlepool59.0%
12Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustSwindon59.2%
13Gateshead Health NHS Foundation TrustGateshead60.1%
14Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustBlackpool60.7%
15Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation TrustKettering61.1%
16University Hospitals Of Leicester NHS TrustLeicester61.2%
17University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation TrustPoole61.2%
18North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation TrustCarlisle61.6%
19The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS TrustHarlow61.8%
20Guy's And St Thomas' NHS Foundation TrustLondon62.4%
21Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS TrustAmersham62.4%
22Nottingham University Hospitals NHS TrustNottingham62.5%
23Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustLuton62.8%
24University Hospitals Of North Midlands NHS TrustStoke-On-Trent63.0%
25University Hospitals Plymouth NHS TrustPlymouth63.6%
26East Cheshire NHS TrustMacclesfield63.6%
27Northampton General Hospital NHS TrustNorthampton63.7%
28James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustGreat Yarmouth64.0%
29Northern Lincolnshire And Goole NHS Foundation TrustGrimsby64.1%
30University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation TrustWorthing64.5%
31South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustMiddlesbrough64.6%
32County Durham And Darlington NHS Foundation TrustDarlington65.0%
33Norfolk And Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustNorwich65.3%
34University Hospitals Of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation TrustKendal65.4%
35The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustNewcastle Upon Tyne65.6%
36East Suffolk And North Essex NHS Foundation TrustColchester65.6%
37Isle Of Wight NHS TrustNewport66.3%
38Sandwell And West Birmingham Hospitals NHS TrustSmethwick66.3%
39Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustOxford66.6%
40Surrey And Sussex Healthcare NHS TrustRedhill66.8%
41The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation TrustLondon67.4%
42North West Anglia NHS Foundation TrustPeterborough68.2%
43Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustExeter68.3%
44Manchester University NHS Foundation TrustManchester68.4%
45George Eliot Hospital NHS TrustNuneaton68.5%
46East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation TrustCanterbury68.7%
47Salisbury NHS Foundation TrustSalisbury68.8%
48Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation TrustBarnsley68.9%
49East Sussex Healthcare NHS TrustSt. Leonards-On-Sea69.0%
50Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustCheltenham69.4%
51Imperial College Healthcare NHS TrustLondon69.5%
52Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustLeeds70.0%
53University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation TrustBirmingham70.2%
54Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustSutton-In-Ashfield70.3%
55Somerset NHS Foundation TrustTaunton70.4%
56King's College Hospital NHS Foundation TrustLondon70.7%
57Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation TrustBath70.8%
58Dartford And Gravesham NHS TrustDartford70.8%
59Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustLiverpool71.5%
60Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustBradford71.5%
61South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation TrustWarwick71.5%
62Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS TrustPortsmouth71.6%
63Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustCambridge71.6%
64Barking, Havering And Redbridge University Hospitals NHS TrustRomford72.2%
65South Tyneside And Sunderland NHS Foundation TrustSunderland72.3%
66University Hospitals Coventry And Warwickshire NHS TrustCoventry72.4%
67The Royal Wolverhampton NHS TrustWolverhampton72.4%
68The Rotherham NHS Foundation TrustRotherham72.4%
69Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation TrustChesterfield72.5%
70York And Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustYork72.8%
71Wrightington, Wigan And Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustWigan72.8%
72Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation TrustSalford73.0%
73Bristol NHS Foundation TrustBristol73.2%
74Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustPreston73.7%
75University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation TrustSouthampton74.0%
76The Shrewsbury And Telford Hospital NHS TrustShrewsbury74.5%
77Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustCrewe75.1%
78East Lancashire Hospitals NHS TrustBlackburn75.4%
79University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustLondon75.5%
80Tameside And Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation TrustAshton-Under-Lyne75.7%
81Liverpool Heart And Chest Hospital NHS Foundation TrustLiverpool75.8%
82Royal Surrey NHS Foundation TrustGuildford75.9%
83Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation TrustEast Grinstead76.0%
84Mersey And West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustPrescot76.2%
85The Dudley Group NHS Foundation TrustDudley76.2%
86West Suffolk NHS Foundation TrustBury St. Edmunds76.3%
87Bolton NHS Foundation TrustBolton77.4%
88Doncaster And Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustDoncaster77.6%
89Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustBasingstoke77.8%
90Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation TrustWirral78.0%
91Royal Free London NHS Foundation TrustLondon79.0%
92Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation TrustReading79.4%
93Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS TrustTruro79.5%
94St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustLondon79.5%
95Stockport NHS Foundation TrustStockport79.7%
96Croydon Health Services NHS TrustThornton Heath79.7%
97West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustWatford79.9%
98Walsall Healthcare NHS TrustWalsall80.2%
99Barts Health NHS TrustLondon80.3%
100Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustNorth Shields80.9%
101Airedale NHS Foundation TrustKeighley81.0%
102East And North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS TrustStevenage81.3%
103North Cheshire And Mersey NHS Foundation TrustWarrington81.6%
104Frimley Health NHS Foundation TrustCamberley82.1%
105Countess Of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation TrustChester82.9%
106The Christie NHS Foundation TrustManchester82.9%
107Harrogate And District NHS Foundation TrustHarrogate83.1%
108Medway NHS Foundation TrustGillingham83.3%
109Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS TrustWakefield83.6%
110Ashford And St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustChertsey84.5%
111The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustUxbridge85.1%
112Maidstone And Tunbridge Wells NHS TrustMaidstone85.1%
113Chelsea And Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation TrustLondon85.3%
114Wye Valley NHS TrustHereford85.4%
115Kingston And Richmond NHS Foundation TrustKingston Upon Thames86.4%
116The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation TrustWirral86.8%
117London North West University Healthcare NHS TrustHarrow87.1%
118Calderdale And Huddersfield NHS Foundation TrustHuddersfield87.2%
119Whittington Health NHS TrustLondon87.2%
120Epsom And St Helier University Hospitals NHS TrustCarshalton87.6%
121Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustLondon87.8%
122Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS TrustStanmore92.3%
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The 62-day standard is urgent referral to first cancer treatment (NHS standard 85%), trust-wide, from NHS England, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. See methodology.