Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 70169

Cancer: Rehabilitation

Tabled: 22 July 2025
Answered: 3 September 2025

Question

Patrick Hurley

LabourSouthport

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of expanding (a) prehabilitation and (b) rehabilitation services in cancer care on (i) NHS costs and (ii) patient outcomes.

Answer

Ashley Dalton
The Department and NHS England are taking a number of steps to support systems to deliver cost-effective, lifesaving prehabilitation and rehabilitation services. Local planning for prehabilitation and rehabilitation services, and any expansion of them, is...

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