Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 19463

Blood Cancer: Diagnosis

Tabled: 11 December 2024
Answered: 16 December 2024
Named Day

Question

Dr Simon Opher

LabourStroud

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will (a) introduce emergency presentation as a proxy staging measure for non-stageable blood cancers and (b) apply a corresponding national target to (i) measure and (ii) support

Answer

There are no current plans to introduce a specific proxy staging measure or a corresponding national target to support the earlier diagnosis of blood cancers. To tackle late diagnoses of blood cancers, the National Health Service is implementing non-speci...

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