Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 23318
Oral Cancer and Throat Cancer: Diagnosis
Tabled: 13 January 2025
Answered: 16 January 2025
Question
Jim Shannon
Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the time taken to diagnose (a) mouth and (b) throat cancer.
Answer
No specific assessment has been made on the adequacy of mouth and throat cancer diagnosis waiting times.However, it is a priority for the Government to support the National Health Service to diagnose cancer as early and quickly as possible, to treat it fa...
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