Cancer: Disadvantaged
Commons · Question 42118 · Tabled 27 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 2 Apr 2025
Question
Asked by Clive Jones
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that people living in the most deprived areas receive earlier cancer diagnoses.
Answer
Answered by Ashley Dalton, 2 Apr 2025
We recognise that there are challenges for several different populations, particularly for people living in the most deprived areas of the country, and that this impacts early diagnosis rates. The National Health Service’s wider Core20Plus5 approach to re...