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Almost All NHS Trusts Miss 62-Day Cancer Treatment Target in 2025
Only three NHS trusts met the 85% 62-day cancer treatment target in 2025 while national performance stayed at 69.1%, reflecting ongoing challenges in timely cancer care.
- Press Association figures for 2025 show most NHS trusts in England missed the 62-day cancer treatment target, with 69.1% of patients starting treatment within 62 days last year.
- The NHS standard specifies 85% of patients start treatment within 62 days, unmet nationally since 2014, with a March 2026 interim target of 75% set by the UK government National Cancer Plan.
- By contrast, some trusts including Calderdale and Huddersfield at 89.2%, Homerton Healthcare at 85.8%, and Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells at 85.7% met or exceeded the 85% target last year, while Guy's and St Thomas' lagged at 55.1%.
- An NHS spokesman noted the service treats record numbers with over three quarters diagnosed or cleared within four weeks, while several trusts are adding clinics and diagnostics to turn this around.
- PA analysis found that in a handful of trusts, at least one in seven patients who started treatment in December 2025 waited more than 104 days, reaching one in six at Hull University Teaching Hospitals and Mid and South Essex.
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The Independent (US)Cancer patients waiting over 104 days as data shows the trusts failing to hit target
The new analysis of NHS England figures shows just three of 119 acute trusts with comparable data hit or surpassed the 85% target last year
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