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.

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

#	Trust	Diagnosed in 28 days
1	Liverpool Heart And Chest Hospital NHS Foundation TrustLiverpool	28.0%
2	Gateshead Health NHS Foundation TrustGateshead	41.6%
3	Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation TrustEast Grinstead	58.6%
4	Torbay And South Devon NHS Foundation TrustTorquay	60.6%
5	East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation TrustCanterbury	64.0%
6	Mid And South Essex NHS Foundation TrustWestcliff-On-Sea	64.3%
7	East And North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS TrustStevenage	65.6%
8	Mersey And West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustPrescot	66.3%
9	The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation TrustBirmingham	66.7%
10	Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustLiverpool	68.8%
11	County Durham And Darlington NHS Foundation TrustDarlington	68.9%
12	United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustLincoln	69.6%
13	Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation TrustKettering	70.9%
14	Northern Lincolnshire And Goole NHS Foundation TrustGrimsby	71.1%
15	The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS TrustHarlow	71.8%
16	University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation TrustSouthampton	72.3%
17	Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustBlackpool	72.4%
18	The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn, NHS Foundation TrustKing's Lynn	72.5%
19	East Suffolk And North Essex NHS Foundation TrustColchester	72.6%
20	University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation TrustWorthing	72.7%
21	Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustHull	72.9%
22	Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS TrustAmersham	73.2%
23	Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation TrustBath	73.3%
24	Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation TrustSalford	73.3%
25	Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation TrustLiverpool	73.8%
26	University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation TrustPoole	73.8%
27	North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation TrustCarlisle	73.8%
28	York And Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustYork	74.0%
29	Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustCheltenham	74.0%
30	Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation TrustWirral	74.4%
31	Somerset NHS Foundation TrustTaunton	74.7%
32	West Suffolk NHS Foundation TrustBury St. Edmunds	74.9%
33	Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation TrustChesterfield	75.0%
34	North Tees And Hartlepool NHS Foundation TrustHartlepool	75.4%
35	Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustSwindon	75.5%
36	Surrey And Sussex Healthcare NHS TrustRedhill	75.6%
37	University Hospitals Of Derby And Burton NHS Foundation TrustDerby	75.8%
38	Sandwell And West Birmingham Hospitals NHS TrustSmethwick	76.0%
39	Norfolk And Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustNorwich	76.0%
40	Kingston And Richmond NHS Foundation TrustKingston Upon Thames	76.1%
41	James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustGreat Yarmouth	76.5%
42	Dorset County Hospital NHS Foundation TrustDorchester	76.6%
43	Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustLuton	76.7%
44	Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS TrustPortsmouth	76.8%
45	The Robert Jones And Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation TrustOswestry	76.9%
46	Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustBasingstoke	77.0%
47	Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustSheffield	77.0%
48	Calderdale And Huddersfield NHS Foundation TrustHuddersfield	77.2%
49	The Dudley Group NHS Foundation TrustDudley	78.0%
50	Dartford And Gravesham NHS TrustDartford	78.1%
51	Salisbury NHS Foundation TrustSalisbury	78.3%
52	King's College Hospital NHS Foundation TrustLondon	78.6%
53	George Eliot Hospital NHS TrustNuneaton	78.6%
54	Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustBradford	78.7%
55	Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustCrewe	78.8%
56	Wrightington, Wigan And Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustWigan	78.8%
57	University Hospitals Of Leicester NHS TrustLeicester	78.9%
58	Bristol NHS Foundation TrustBristol	79.0%
59	University Hospitals Of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation TrustKendal	79.2%
60	East Cheshire NHS TrustMacclesfield	79.2%
61	London North West University Healthcare NHS TrustHarrow	79.4%
62	South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustMiddlesbrough	80.1%
63	Bolton NHS Foundation TrustBolton	80.1%
64	Medway NHS Foundation TrustGillingham	80.1%
65	Royal Surrey NHS Foundation TrustGuildford	80.2%
66	The Royal Wolverhampton NHS TrustWolverhampton	80.3%
67	Birmingham Women's And Children's NHS Foundation TrustBirmingham	80.5%
68	Isle Of Wight NHS TrustNewport	80.5%
69	Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS TrustStanmore	80.6%
70	Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustLeeds	80.6%
71	Northampton General Hospital NHS TrustNorthampton	80.7%
72	South Tyneside And Sunderland NHS Foundation TrustSunderland	80.7%
73	Tameside And Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation TrustAshton-Under-Lyne	80.8%
74	Barking, Havering And Redbridge University Hospitals NHS TrustRomford	80.9%
75	South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation TrustWarwick	81.0%
76	Manchester University NHS Foundation TrustManchester	81.0%
77	Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation TrustBarnsley	81.1%
78	North Cheshire And Mersey NHS Foundation TrustWarrington	81.1%
79	Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustNorth Shields	81.2%
80	Stockport NHS Foundation TrustStockport	81.3%
81	Barts Health NHS TrustLondon	81.5%
82	Lewisham And Greenwich NHS TrustLondon	81.7%
83	University Hospitals Plymouth NHS TrustPlymouth	81.7%
84	The Rotherham NHS Foundation TrustRotherham	81.8%
85	Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustPreston	81.8%
86	Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustExeter	81.9%
87	The Hillingdon Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustUxbridge	81.9%
88	Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS TrustTruro	82.1%
89	Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustOxford	82.1%
90	North West Anglia NHS Foundation TrustPeterborough	82.2%
91	Royal Free London NHS Foundation TrustLondon	82.3%
92	University Hospitals Of North Midlands NHS TrustStoke-On-Trent	82.3%
93	Doncaster And Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustDoncaster	82.8%
94	Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustCambridge	82.9%
95	Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS TrustWorcester	82.9%
96	Imperial College Healthcare NHS TrustLondon	82.9%
97	Maidstone And Tunbridge Wells NHS TrustMaidstone	83.0%
98	Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation TrustReading	83.1%
99	Chelsea And Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation TrustLondon	83.4%
100	Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation TrustMilton Keynes	83.7%
101	Nottingham University Hospitals NHS TrustNottingham	83.9%
102	The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustNewcastle Upon Tyne	84.1%
103	Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS TrustWakefield	84.1%
104	Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustSutton-In-Ashfield	84.3%
105	East Sussex Healthcare NHS TrustSt. Leonards-On-Sea	84.5%
106	Croydon Health Services NHS TrustThornton Heath	84.9%
107	St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustLondon	85.0%
108	East Lancashire Hospitals NHS TrustBlackburn	85.2%
109	Wye Valley NHS TrustHereford	85.3%
110	University Hospitals Coventry And Warwickshire NHS TrustCoventry	85.6%
111	Ashford And St Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustChertsey	85.9%
112	Guy's And St Thomas' NHS Foundation TrustLondon	86.7%
113	West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS TrustWatford	86.7%
114	Walsall Healthcare NHS TrustWalsall	87.0%
115	University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation TrustBirmingham	87.1%
116	Countess Of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation TrustChester	87.1%
117	Homerton Healthcare NHS Foundation TrustLondon	87.4%
118	Frimley Health NHS Foundation TrustCamberley	87.8%
119	University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation TrustLondon	87.8%
120	The Shrewsbury And Telford Hospital NHS TrustShrewsbury	87.8%
121	Airedale NHS Foundation TrustKeighley	89.0%
122	Whittington Health NHS TrustLondon	89.2%
123	Harrogate And District NHS Foundation TrustHarrogate	89.5%
124	Epsom And St Helier University Hospitals NHS TrustCarshalton	91.7%
125	The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation TrustLondon	91.9%
126	Sheffield Children's NHS Foundation TrustSheffield	95.0%
127	Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation TrustLiverpool	100.0%
128	The Christie NHS Foundation TrustManchester	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.