Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 57114

Cancer: Young People

Tabled: 3 June 2025

Answered: 23 June 2025

Question

Clive Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the NHS plans to take to improve (a) awareness and (b) training for (i) GPs and (ii) frontline healthcare professionals to help (A) recognise and (B) refer suspected cases of cancer in t

Answer

Ashley Dalton

The Department is committed to getting the National Health Service diagnosing cancer earlier and treating it faster to improve survival rates, including for children and young people. To achieve this, the NHS has delivered an extra 40,000 operations, scan...

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