Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 8829

Cancer: Health Services

Tabled: 14 October 2024

Answered: 18 October 2024

Question

Jim Shannon

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help reduce delays in treatment for cancer patients.

Answer

Karin Smyth

Lord Darzi’s report has set out the scale of the challenges we face in fixing the National Health Service and the need to improve cancer waiting time performance and cancer survival. In particular, he highlighted the need to improve the number of patients...

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