Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 122084

Blood Cancer: Diagnosis

Tabled: 19 March 2026
Answered: 31 March 2026

Question

Stuart Andrew

ConservativeDaventry

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has for non-specific symptom pathways for earlier diagnosis of leukaemia and other blood cancers.

Answer

Mrs Sharon Hodgson
Early diagnosis is a key focus of the National Cancer Plan. It is a priority for the Government to support the National Health Service to diagnose cancer, including blood cancers, as early and quickly as possible, and to treat it faster, to improve outcom...

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