Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT): Best Practice Timed Diagnostic Cancer pathways (3 August 2023)

Summary

This summary guide pulls together best practice to support NHS clinicians to better meet the Faster Diagnosis Standard for cancer. Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) and NHS England’s Cancer Programme have worked in partnership to produce this guidance, which outlines how cancer alliances and local organisations can implement NHS England’s best practice timed diagnostic pathways for cancer. The guidance includes advice for all stages of a cancer diagnosis, from early identification of patients to onward referral, as well as useful insights from the relevant GIRFT national clinical leads and links to best practice case studies. This edition has a particular focus on colorectal cancer, prostate cancer and skin cancer.