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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.

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

#TrustWithin 62 days
1Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustHull51.7%
2Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustSheffield52.1%
3Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustBlackpool52.8%
4Mid And South Essex NHS Foundation TrustWestcliff-On-Sea55.1%
5Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS TrustWorcester55.7%
6University Hospitals Of Leicester NHS TrustLeicester57.7%
7East Cheshire NHS TrustMacclesfield59.2%
8Gateshead Health NHS Foundation TrustGateshead59.6%
9United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustLincoln59.7%
10Northern Lincolnshire And Goole NHS Foundation TrustGrimsby59.9%
11Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation TrustMilton Keynes60.2%
12The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS TrustHarlow61.2%
13Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustLuton61.4%
14Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS TrustAmersham61.9%
15University Hospitals Of Derby And Burton NHS Foundation TrustDerby62.5%
16North Tees And Hartlepool NHS Foundation TrustHartlepool62.9%
17Northampton General Hospital NHS TrustNorthampton63.4%
18George Eliot Hospital NHS TrustNuneaton63.6%
19Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation TrustChesterfield64.4%
20Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustSwindon64.4%
21Sandwell And West Birmingham Hospitals NHS TrustSmethwick64.7%
22East Suffolk And North Essex NHS Foundation TrustColchester64.7%
23The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation TrustKing's Lynn65.0%
24Dartford And Gravesham NHS TrustDartford65.0%
25Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustCheltenham65.5%
26James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustGreat Yarmouth65.6%
27South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustMiddlesbrough65.7%
28Guy's And St Thomas' NHS Foundation TrustLondon65.8%
29Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustOxford66.2%
30University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation TrustWorthing66.3%
31South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation TrustWarwick66.8%
32Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustSutton-In-Ashfield66.8%
33Imperial College Healthcare NHS TrustLondon66.8%
34East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation TrustCanterbury67.2%
35Nottingham University Hospitals NHS TrustNottingham67.2%
36The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustNewcastle Upon Tyne67.8%
37Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation TrustBarnsley68.4%
38East Sussex Healthcare NHS TrustSt. Leonards-On-Sea68.4%
39Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation TrustSalford68.5%
40Surrey And Sussex Healthcare NHS TrustRedhill69.7%
41Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation TrustBath69.9%
42Torbay And South Devon NHS Foundation TrustTorquay70.0%
43University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation TrustPoole70.1%
44Isle Of Wight NHS TrustNewport70.5%
45University Hospitals Plymouth NHS TrustPlymouth70.6%
46Medway NHS Foundation TrustGillingham70.8%
47University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation TrustBirmingham71.0%
48Lewisham And Greenwich NHS TrustLondon71.5%
49Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustExeter71.7%
50York And Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustYork71.8%
51Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustLeeds72.1%
52King's College Hospital NHS Foundation TrustLondon72.2%
53Norfolk And Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustNorwich72.4%
54University Hospitals Of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation TrustKendal72.8%
55University Hospitals Of North Midlands NHS TrustStoke-On-Trent72.9%
56Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustPreston73.0%
57Salisbury NHS Foundation TrustSalisbury73.1%
58The Dudley Group NHS Foundation TrustDudley73.4%
59North West Anglia NHS Foundation TrustPeterborough73.4%
60Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustLiverpool73.6%
61Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustCrewe73.7%
62Bolton NHS Foundation TrustBolton73.8%
63Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS TrustPortsmouth73.8%
64Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustBradford74.1%
65Barking, Havering And Redbridge University Hospitals NHS TrustRomford74.2%
66Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustBasingstoke74.3%
67County Durham And Darlington NHS Foundation TrustDarlington74.4%
68Liverpool Heart And Chest Hospital NHS Foundation TrustLiverpool74.5%
69Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation TrustEast Grinstead75.0%
70Bristol NHS Foundation TrustBristol75.0%
71Croydon Health Services NHS TrustThornton Heath75.1%
72Doncaster And Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustDoncaster75.1%
73Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustCambridge75.1%
74East Lancashire Hospitals NHS TrustBlackburn75.4%
75The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustUxbridge75.5%
76The Royal Wolverhampton NHS TrustWolverhampton75.6%
77The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation TrustLondon76.1%
78Stockport NHS Foundation TrustStockport76.5%
79The Rotherham NHS Foundation TrustRotherham76.6%
80The Shrewsbury And Telford Hospital NHS TrustShrewsbury76.7%
81Walsall Healthcare NHS TrustWalsall77.0%
82Manchester University NHS Foundation TrustManchester77.1%
83Kingston And Richmond NHS Foundation TrustKingston Upon Thames77.2%
84University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustLondon77.4%
85University Hospitals Coventry And Warwickshire NHS TrustCoventry77.5%
86St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustLondon77.6%
87Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation TrustDorchester77.6%
88Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation TrustKettering77.6%
89Wrightington, Wigan And Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustWigan77.7%
90Somerset NHS Foundation TrustTaunton77.8%
91North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation TrustCarlisle77.8%
92Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation TrustWirral78.2%
93University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation TrustSouthampton78.3%
94West Suffolk NHS Foundation TrustBury St. Edmunds78.7%
95Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS TrustTruro78.7%
96North Cheshire And Mersey NHS Foundation TrustWarrington79.5%
97East And North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS TrustStevenage79.5%
98Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation TrustReading79.5%
99Tameside And Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation TrustAshton-Under-Lyne79.7%
100Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustNorth Shields80.1%
101Harrogate And District NHS Foundation TrustHarrogate80.3%
102West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustWatford80.6%
103Wye Valley NHS TrustHereford80.6%
104Mersey And West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustPrescot80.7%
105Barts Health NHS TrustLondon80.8%
106South Tyneside And Sunderland NHS Foundation TrustSunderland81.9%
107Ashford And St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustChertsey82.3%
108Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS TrustWakefield82.3%
109The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation TrustWirral82.8%
110Countess Of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation TrustChester83.8%
111Maidstone And Tunbridge Wells NHS TrustMaidstone83.8%
112Whittington Health NHS TrustLondon84.0%
113Frimley Health NHS Foundation TrustCamberley84.7%
114Royal Free London NHS Foundation TrustLondon86.0%
115London North West University Healthcare NHS TrustHarrow86.5%
116The Christie NHS Foundation TrustManchester86.5%
117Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustLondon88.8%
118Epsom And St Helier University Hospitals NHS TrustCarshalton88.9%
119Royal Surrey NHS Foundation TrustGuildford88.9%
120Airedale NHS Foundation TrustKeighley89.0%
121Calderdale And Huddersfield NHS Foundation TrustHuddersfield89.2%
122Chelsea And Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation TrustLondon90.6%
123Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS TrustStanmore96.2%
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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.