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...