Department of Health: Diagnostics waiting times & activity data, month ending 31 March 2010

The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health:

Diagnostics waiting times & activity data, month ending 31 March 2010.

The monthly data published today gives the waiting times for 15 key diagnostic tests carried out in the NHS.

More information, including a diagnostic data Q&A, is available on the DH website.

Main findings this month

· The number of patients, for whom English commissioners are responsible, waiting over 6 weeks for any one of the 15 key diagnostics tests at the end of March 2010 was 3,700, an increase of 200 (4.4%) from February 2010, and an increase of 800 (27.4 %) from March 2009.

· Of the patients waiting at the end of March 2010, 99.3% had been waiting under 6 weeks, unchanged from February 2010, and compared to 99.4% in March 2009.

Links:

Diagnostic data: http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Statistics/Performancedataandstatistics/HospitalWaitingTimesandListStatistics/Diagnostics/index.htm

Contacts

NDS Enquiries
Phone: For enquiries please contact the above department
ndsenquiries@coi.gsi.gov.uk