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Cancer: Diagnosis

Commons · Question 56212 · Tabled 2 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 12 Jun 2025

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Asked by Jim Shannon

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will (a) publish a strategy to help improve the (i) diagnosis and (ii) detection of less survivable cancers and (b) ensure comprehensive (A) commissioning and (B) diagnostic capacity in (1) n

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Answered by Ashley Dalton, 12 Jun 2025

The Department is working to develop a new National Cancer Plan, which will include further details on how we will improve the diagnosis and detection of less survivable cancers.As set out in the new plan for reforming elective care, the Government is com...