Cancer: Health Services
Commons · Question 6680 · Tabled 4 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 14 Oct 2024
Question
Asked by Tom Gordon
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of developing a specific action plan for (a) cancers of the (i) brain, (ii) liver, (iii) lung, (iv) stomach, (v) oesophagus and (vi) pancre
Answer
Answered by Andrew Gwynne, 14 Oct 2024
The Government has not made an assessment of the potential merits of an action plan for less survivable cancers individually or as a group, or had specific discussions with international counterparts on their approach to less survivable cancers.Lord Darzi...