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Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Diagnosis

Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 8060, tabled on 5 January 2024

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average time is for a patient with suspected (a) Crohn’s disease and (b) ulcerative colitis to receive a diagnosis.

Answered on

11 January 2024

The data is not routinely held in the format requested. Data is centrally collected for time from referral to a diagnostic test, but not referral to diagnosis. It is also collected by test type and not the purpose of the test.

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