Subject	Predicate	Object
JySFvkag	a	Resource
		Answer
		Written answer
	answer has question	crTsfmK2
	answer has answering person	John Yorke Denham
	answer text	Mr. Edward Davey: To ask the Secretary of State for Health what the average waiting time was for a non-urgent NHS patient to receivean ultrasound examination for a possible thrombosis in each (a) London hospital and (b) NHS region for each of the years (i) 1997,(ii) 1998 and (iii) 1999. [129238]Mr. Denham: The data requested are not collected centrally. We take the issue of delays in diagnosis very seriously. Through suchinitiatives as the national booked admissions programme, the cancer services collaborative, action on cataracts and action onorthopaedics, we are encouraging hospitals to streamline their services so that tests are carried out, and a diagnosis made, asquickly as possible and with the patient making the minimum number of visits to hospital.
	answer given date	2000-07-10
	answer has answering body	Department of Health
	written answer has answering body	Department of Health
Department of Health	answering body has written answer	JySFvkag
Department of Health	answering body has answer	JySFvkag
crTsfmK2	question has answer	JySFvkag
John Yorke Denham	answering person has answer	JySFvkag