Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 117701

Tumours: Human Tissue

Tabled: 4 March 2026

Answered: 16 March 2026

Question

Chris Evans

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the answer of 21 November 2025 to question 90178, if his Department will make an assessment of the adequacy of the capacity of NHS pathology services for fresh-freezing brain cancer and

Answer

Mrs Sharon Hodgson

Standard operating procedures (SOPs) for the fresh-freezing of tissue examples have already been developed across pathology networks in England. It is, however, the responsibility of individual pathology services to maintain their own SOPs for the fresh-f...

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