Written questions

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...