A Cancer Care Spell Delay is a REFERRAL DELAY.

A Cancer Care Spell Delay is a delay experienced during a Cancer Care Spell.

The Cancer Care Spell Delays for cancer waiting time service standards, as specified in the National Cancer Waiting Times Monitoring Data Set requirements are the delay between:

• CANCER REFERRAL TO TREATMENT PERIOD START DATE and DATE FIRST SEEN, where PRIORITY TYPE is National Code 'Two Week Wait'
  CANCER REFERRAL TO TREATMENT PERIOD START DATE and TREATMENT START DATE (CANCER), where PRIORITY TYPE is National Code 'Two Week Wait' and CANCER TREATMENT EVENT TYPE is National Code 'First Definitive Treatment for a new Primary Cancer' or 'First treatment for metastatic disease following an unknown Primary Cancer'
• CANCER REFERRAL TO TREATMENT PERIOD START DATE and TREATMENT START DATE (CANCER), where PRIORITY TYPE is National Code 'Urgent' and SOURCE OF REFERRAL FOR OUT-PATIENTS is National Code 'Referral from a National Screening Programme' and CANCER TREATMENT EVENT TYPE is National Code 'First Definitive Treatment for a new Primary Cancer'
  CANCER TREATMENT PERIOD START DATE and TREATMENT START DATE (CANCER), where CANCER TREATMENT EVENT TYPE is National Code 'First Definitive Treatment for a new Primary Cancer' or 'First treatment for metastatic disease following an unknown Primary Cancer'
• Consultant Upgrade Date and TREATMENT START DATE (CANCER), where CANCER TREATMENT EVENT TYPE is National Code 'First Definitive Treatment for a new Primary Cancer' or 'First treatment for metastatic disease following an unknown Primary Cancer'
  CANCER TREATMENT PERIOD START DATE and TREATMENT START DATE (CANCER), where CANCER TREATMENT EVENT TYPE is NOT National Code 'First Definitive Treatment for a new Primary Cancer' OR 'First treatment for metastatic disease following an unknown Primary Cancer'

This supporting information is also known by these names:

Context	Alias
plural	Cancer Care Spell Delays