Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 21830
Blood Cancer: Medical Treatments
Tabled: 3 January 2025
Answered: 8 January 2025
Question
Clive Jones
Liberal Democrat — Wokingham
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to address the regional variation in (a) access and (b) uptake to timely treatments for blood cancer patients.
Answer
We will get the National Health Service diagnosing blood cancer earlier and treating it faster. We will start by delivering an extra 40,000 operations, scans, and appointments each week, as the first step to ensuring early diagnosis and faster treatment.T...
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