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Blood Cancer: Medical Treatments

Commons · Question 21830 · Tabled 3 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 8 Jan 2025

Question

Asked by Clive Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to address the regional variation in (a) access and (b) uptake to timely treatments for blood cancer patients.

Answer

Answered by Andrew Gwynne, 8 Jan 2025

We will get the National Health Service diagnosing blood cancer earlier and treating it faster. We will start by delivering an extra 40,000 operations, scans, and appointments each week, as the first step to ensuring early diagnosis and faster treatment.T...