Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 89324

Cancer: Diagnosis

Tabled: 10 November 2025
Answered: 18 November 2025

Question

Helen Maguire

Liberal DemocratEpsom and Ewell

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support the implementation of innovative (a) diagnostic tools and (b) tests to help improve the speed of diagnosis of less survivable cancers.

Answer

Ashley Dalton
The Department is carrying out work to assess the barriers of effective adoption and to improve the way diagnostic tools, including those using artificial intelligence (AI), are deployed across the National Health Service in England.The NHS Cancer Program...

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