Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 7237

Radiotherapy

Tabled: 4 October 2024

Answered: 14 October 2024

Question

Anna Sabine

Liberal Democrat — Frome and East Somerset

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to reduce the length of time between diagnosis and the start of radiotherapy treatment.

Answer

We will get the National Health Service diagnosing cancer on time, diagnosing it earlier, and treating it faster, and we will improve patients’ experience across the system.Lord Darzi’s report has set out the scale of the challenges we face in fixing the ...

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