Written questions

Prostate Cancer: Health Services

Commons · Question 36892 · Tabled 10 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 17 Mar 2025

Question

Asked by Martin Wrigley

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that people with an early prostate cancer diagnosis can quickly access (a) treatment and (b) care.

Answer

Answered by Ashley Dalton, 17 Mar 2025

Improving access to treatment and care are key priorities for the Government for all cancer types, including prostate cancer.To achieve this, we have delivered an extra 40,000 operations, scans, and appointments each week, during our first year in Governm...