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 DemocratWokingham

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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