Bowel Cancer
Commons · Question 11454 · Tabled 28 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 5 Nov 2024
Question
Asked by Tom Gordon
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce waiting times for the (a) diagnosis and (b) treatment of bowel cancer.
Answer
Answered by Karin Smyth, 5 Nov 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...