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Cancer: Young People

Commons · Question 57114 · Tabled 3 Jun 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 23 Jun 2025

Question

Asked by Clive Jones

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the NHS plans to take to improve (a) awareness and (b) training for (i) GPs and (ii) frontline healthcare professionals to help (A) recognise and (B) refer suspected cases of cancer in t

Answer

Answered by Ashley Dalton, 23 Jun 2025

The Department is committed to getting the National Health Service diagnosing cancer earlier and treating it faster to improve survival rates, including for children and young people. To achieve this, the NHS has delivered an extra 40,000 operations, scan...