Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 42118

Cancer: Disadvantaged

Tabled: 27 March 2025

Answered: 2 April 2025

Question

Clive Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that people living in the most deprived areas receive earlier cancer diagnoses.

Answer

Ashley Dalton

We recognise that there are challenges for several different populations, particularly for people living in the most deprived areas of the country, and that this impacts early diagnosis rates. The National Health Service’s wider Core20Plus5 approach to re...

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