Written questions

Breast Cancer: Screening

Commons · Question 11920 · Tabled 30 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 6 Nov 2024

Question

Asked by Rosena Allin-Khan

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve the number of breast cancer diagnoses at mammogram or other early stages.

Answer

Answered by Andrew Gwynne, 6 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, including for breast cancer. In particular, he has highlighted the need ...