Written questions

Blood Cancer: Health Services

Commons · Question 19460 · Tabled 11 Dec 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 16 Dec 2024

Question

Asked by Simon Opher

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will meet the Blood Cancer Alliance to discuss the need to include specific measures to improve blood cancer (a) diagnosis, (b) treatment and (c) care in the forthcoming cancer strategy.

Answer

Answered by Andrew Gwynne, 16 Dec 2024

There are no current plans to introduce a specific proxy staging measure or a corresponding national target to support the earlier diagnosis of blood cancers. To tackle late diagnoses of blood cancers, the National Health Service is implementing non-speci...