Recommendation 13

The Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England must publish a detailed analysis of the extent of the cancer backlog to support the delivery of the elective care recovery plan. The Department should work with NHS England to set out: a) the latest estimate for how many fewer cancer referrals and treatment starts there have been seen since the beginning of the pandemic; Cancer services 43 b) the latest estimate for how many of these people may still not have come forward for treatment, based on expected referral rates by cancer type, cancer incidence projections, and mortality rates; c) the breakdown of these estimates according to region and cancer type.