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<p>In London, the national ‘Help us to Help You’ campaigns have been promoted and
included local initiatives, which has increased number of referrals. Mutual aid is
being provided between providers in London, initially within local clinical commissioning
group area and with other London providers where this is not available. This allows
faster access to first outpatient appointments with clinical assessment where waiting
times are shorter.</p><p>Due to the nature of treatments for breast cancer where surgery
is often a day case, this pathway has continued more consistently. Those on breast
cancer pathways waiting longer than 62 days currently represent approximately 10%
of all pathways and continues to decrease.</p><p>Levels of first treatments remain
high, with 130 more breast cancers treated through the urgent general practitioner
route compared to pre-pandemic levels and we anticipate that some patients will have
been referred via screening.</p>
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