Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 82214

Rare Cancers: Diagnosis

Tabled: 14 October 2025
Answered: 23 October 2025

Question

Danny Beales

LabourUxbridge and South Ruislip

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how the full roll-out of the non-specific symptom pathways is being measured; and how their development has included the less survivable cancers.

Answer

Ashley Dalton
Since 2019, NHS England and cancer alliances have been developing non-specific symptom (NSS) pathways for patients who present with vague and non-site-specific symptoms which do not clearly align to a tumour type. Full roll out of NSS pathways has been ac...

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