Prostate Cancer: Screening
Commons · Question 45135 · Tabled 8 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 22 Apr 2025
Question
Asked by Ian Byrne
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help improve access to early prostate cancer (a) diagnosis and (b) treatment in deprived communities.
Answer
Answered by Ashley Dalton, 22 Apr 2025
The Government understands that more needs to be done to improve outcomes for all people with prostate cancer. To achieve this, we have delivered an extra 40,000 operations, scans, and appointments each week during our first year in Government, as the fir...