Sentence examples for urgent route from inspiring English sources

Preliminary findings are encouraging, especially with respect to the increasing number of cancer cases being referred through the urgent route, though it is too early to be definitive about the impact of the programme (Lyon et al, 2009).

Figures for August released by the Welsh government on Wednesday also show 98.5% of patients started treatment within 31 days through the non-urgent route, compared to 98.2% the previous month.

Much recent work has concentrated on outpatient referrals, and whether patients take the urgent or non-urgent route [ 9- 11].

"Correspondingly more patients were diagnosed through the urgent outpatient route.

For example, take the latest quarterly figures on the treatment of those newly diagnosed with cancer via the urgent suspected route.

By its design, the present analysis attempted to determine whether there is a mortality difference between a situation where an urgent referral route exists and is being used and another situation where such a mechanism does not exist or is not being used.

Participants relied on guidelines and the 2-week-wait (2WW) urgent referral routes available for potential cancer symptoms in England (National Institute for Health and Clinical Care Excellence (NICE), 2005).

The findings of this study suggest that this is partly due to continued usage of urgent referral routes outside the 2-week wait scheme and secondly due to a large increase in referrals, probably generated by the introduction of the DoH guidelines.

A Welsh government spokesman said: "Nine out of ten patients newly diagnosed with cancer via the urgent suspected cancer route start treatment with in our 62 day target.

The increase in proportion of lung cancers detected through the urgent 2-week route is statistically significant (χ=9.178, df=1, P=0.002).

The increase in proportion of bowel cancers detected through the urgent 2-week route is statistically significant (χ=4.687, df=1, P=0.03).