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...