NHS trusts with the worst 28-day cancer diagnosis performance

The share of patients told within 28 days of an urgent referral whether they have cancer — the Faster Diagnosis Standard, by trust, worst performers first. The NHS standard is 75%. Trusts treating very few cancer patients are excluded.

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

#	Trust	Diagnosed in 28 days
1	Gateshead Health NHS Foundation TrustGateshead	47.3%
2	Torbay And South Devon NHS Foundation TrustTorquay	57.1%
3	Liverpool Heart And Chest Hospital NHS Foundation TrustLiverpool	60.0%
4	Northern Lincolnshire And Goole NHS Foundation TrustGrimsby	64.0%
5	Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustLuton	65.1%
6	Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustHull	67.3%
7	East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation TrustCanterbury	67.6%
8	Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustSwindon	67.9%
9	Mid And South Essex NHS Foundation TrustWestcliff-On-Sea	68.2%
10	The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation TrustKing's Lynn	68.5%
11	Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustBlackpool	70.4%
12	North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation TrustCarlisle	70.9%
13	University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation TrustPoole	71.5%
14	Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustLiverpool	72.0%
15	The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS TrustHarlow	72.4%
16	County Durham And Darlington NHS Foundation TrustDarlington	72.4%
17	Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation TrustEast Grinstead	73.0%
18	Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation TrustLiverpool	73.0%
19	Mersey And West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustPrescot	73.0%
20	United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustLincoln	73.4%
21	University Hospitals Of Leicester NHS TrustLeicester	73.7%
22	York And Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustYork	73.8%
23	The Robert Jones And Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation TrustOswestry	73.9%
24	Sandwell And West Birmingham Hospitals NHS TrustSmethwick	74.4%
25	University Hospitals Of Derby And Burton NHS Foundation TrustDerby	74.6%
26	East Cheshire NHS TrustMacclesfield	75.2%
27	East Suffolk And North Essex NHS Foundation TrustColchester	75.3%
28	Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustCheltenham	75.3%
29	James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustGreat Yarmouth	75.4%
30	University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation TrustWorthing	75.8%
31	Dartford And Gravesham NHS TrustDartford	75.8%
32	University Hospitals Of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation TrustKendal	76.0%
33	Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation TrustBath	76.3%
34	East And North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS TrustStevenage	76.4%
35	The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation TrustBirmingham	76.5%
36	Medway NHS Foundation TrustGillingham	76.6%
37	Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS TrustPortsmouth	76.6%
38	Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation TrustSalford	76.6%
39	George Eliot Hospital NHS TrustNuneaton	76.7%
40	North Tees And Hartlepool NHS Foundation TrustHartlepool	76.8%
41	Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation TrustKettering	76.8%
42	University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation TrustSouthampton	76.8%
43	Barking, Havering And Redbridge University Hospitals NHS TrustRomford	77.0%
44	Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustBasingstoke	78.1%
45	Northampton General Hospital NHS TrustNorthampton	78.6%
46	Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation TrustMilton Keynes	78.7%
47	Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS TrustAmersham	78.8%
48	East Lancashire Hospitals NHS TrustBlackburn	78.8%
49	King's College Hospital NHS Foundation TrustLondon	78.8%
50	University Hospitals Of North Midlands NHS TrustStoke-On-Trent	79.0%
51	Salisbury NHS Foundation TrustSalisbury	79.0%
52	Calderdale And Huddersfield NHS Foundation TrustHuddersfield	79.3%
53	Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustSheffield	79.4%
54	Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation TrustWirral	79.6%
55	Isle Of Wight NHS TrustNewport	80.0%
56	Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustCrewe	80.0%
57	Manchester University NHS Foundation TrustManchester	80.0%
58	Bristol NHS Foundation TrustBristol	80.1%
59	Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustExeter	80.4%
60	Royal Free London NHS Foundation TrustLondon	80.5%
61	Kingston And Richmond NHS Foundation TrustKingston Upon Thames	80.5%
62	West Suffolk NHS Foundation TrustBury St. Edmunds	80.6%
63	Surrey And Sussex Healthcare NHS TrustRedhill	80.7%
64	Royal Surrey NHS Foundation TrustGuildford	80.7%
65	Imperial College Healthcare NHS TrustLondon	80.7%
66	Wrightington, Wigan And Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustWigan	80.8%
67	London North West University Healthcare NHS TrustHarrow	80.9%
68	Norfolk And Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustNorwich	80.9%
69	The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustUxbridge	81.0%
70	Barts Health NHS TrustLondon	81.0%
71	Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation TrustChesterfield	81.0%
72	North Cheshire And Mersey NHS Foundation TrustWarrington	81.0%
73	Nottingham University Hospitals NHS TrustNottingham	81.2%
74	Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustBradford	81.3%
75	Croydon Health Services NHS TrustThornton Heath	81.3%
76	Bolton NHS Foundation TrustBolton	81.4%
77	Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation TrustBarnsley	81.6%
78	Stockport NHS Foundation TrustStockport	81.6%
79	South Tyneside And Sunderland NHS Foundation TrustSunderland	81.7%
80	Maidstone And Tunbridge Wells NHS TrustMaidstone	81.8%
81	Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustSutton-In-Ashfield	81.8%
82	Tameside And Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation TrustAshton-Under-Lyne	81.9%
83	Chelsea And Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation TrustLondon	81.9%
84	The Royal Wolverhampton NHS TrustWolverhampton	82.1%
85	South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustMiddlesbrough	82.2%
86	North West Anglia NHS Foundation TrustPeterborough	82.4%
87	Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustOxford	82.5%
88	Doncaster And Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustDoncaster	82.7%
89	Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS TrustTruro	82.8%
90	The Rotherham NHS Foundation TrustRotherham	82.8%
91	Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS TrustWorcester	83.1%
92	East Sussex Healthcare NHS TrustSt. Leonards-On-Sea	83.3%
93	The Dudley Group NHS Foundation TrustDudley	83.4%
94	Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS TrustWakefield	83.5%
95	Guy's And St Thomas' NHS Foundation TrustLondon	83.6%
96	Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustLeeds	83.6%
97	Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustPreston	83.7%
98	Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustCambridge	83.8%
99	West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustWatford	83.9%
100	Somerset NHS Foundation TrustTaunton	83.9%
101	South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation TrustWarwick	84.0%
102	The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustNewcastle Upon Tyne	84.6%
103	Harrogate And District NHS Foundation TrustHarrogate	84.6%
104	Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustNorth Shields	84.6%
105	Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation TrustReading	84.7%
106	St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustLondon	84.8%
107	Frimley Health NHS Foundation TrustCamberley	85.6%
108	The Shrewsbury And Telford Hospital NHS TrustShrewsbury	85.8%
109	Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS TrustStanmore	85.9%
110	Countess Of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation TrustChester	86.0%
111	Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustLondon	86.2%
112	University Hospitals Plymouth NHS TrustPlymouth	86.3%
113	Wye Valley NHS TrustHereford	86.4%
114	University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation TrustBirmingham	86.6%
115	Whittington Health NHS TrustLondon	86.7%
116	Airedale NHS Foundation TrustKeighley	86.7%
117	Ashford And St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustChertsey	86.8%
118	University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustLondon	87.3%
119	University Hospitals Coventry And Warwickshire NHS TrustCoventry	87.3%
120	Birmingham Women's And Children's NHS Foundation TrustBirmingham	88.0%
121	Walsall Healthcare NHS TrustWalsall	88.6%
122	The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation TrustLondon	90.0%
123	Epsom And St Helier University Hospitals NHS TrustCarshalton	91.6%
124	Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation TrustSheffield	96.3%
125	The Christie NHS Foundation TrustManchester	96.7%
126	Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation TrustLiverpool	100.0%

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The 28-day Faster Diagnosis Standard is urgent referral to being told whether or not you have cancer (NHS standard 75%), trust-wide, from NHS England, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. See methodology.