Written questions

Cancer: Health Services

Commons · Question 7086 · Tabled 4 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 11 Oct 2024

Question

Asked by Clive Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of establishing a a long-term cancer strategy.

Answer

Answered by Andrew Gwynne, 11 Oct 2024

Lord Darzi’s report has set out the scale of the challenges we face in fixing the National Health Service, and the need to improve cancer waiting time performance and cancer survival. In particular, he has highlighted the need to improve the number of pat...