Manx Care will aim to give people referred for an urgent cancer diagnosis a result within 28 days.
People referred for an urgent cancer diagnosis on the Isle of Man should be given a result within 28 days under Manx Care new targets.
Instead it would now aim for 75% of people have a diagnosis within four weeks, with treatment to begin within 62 days of a referral.As well as the 28-day "referral to diagnosis" target, Manx Care has introduced a 31-day "decision to treat to first treatment" target For those who receive a cancer diagnosis the 62-day treatment target starts on the date the referral has been received to the date cancer treatment starts.
Moving to the "new faster diagnosis standard" took into account the "additional step in the patient journey".
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