Straight to colonoscopy: the ideal patient pathway for the 2-week suspected cancer referrals?

Andrew D Beggs; Ravinda D Bhate; Shashi Irukulla; Mayen Achiek; A Muti Abulafi

doi:10.1308/003588411X12851639107917

Straight to colonoscopy: the ideal patient pathway for the 2-week suspected cancer referrals?

Andrew D Beggs, Ravinda D Bhate, Shashi Irukulla, Mayen Achiek, A Muti Abulafi

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Abstract

The UK has a higher mortality for colon cancer than the European average. The UK Government introduced a 2-week referral target for patients with colorectal symptoms meeting certain criteria and 62-day target for the delivery of treatment from the date of referral for those patients diagnosed with cancer. Hospitals are expected to meet 100% and 95% of these targets, respectively; therefore, an efficient and effective patient pathway is required to deliver diagnosis and treatment within this period. It is suggested that 'straight-to-test' will help this process and we have examined our implementation of 'straight-to-colonoscopy' as a method of achieving this aim.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	114-9
Number of pages	6
Journal	Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
Volume	93
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1308/003588411X12851639107917
Publication status	Published - 2011

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Straight to colonoscopy: the ideal patient pathway for the 2-week suspected cancer referrals?

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