Cancer: Accident and Emergency Departments
Lords · Question HL9702 · Tabled 21 Jul 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 30 Jul 2025
Question
Asked by Lord Rennard
To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to reduce the number of people diagnosed with cancer in an emergency care setting in (1) Yorkshire, and (2) other regions of the country.
Answer
Answered by Baroness Merron, 30 Jul 2025
It is a priority for the Government to support the National Health Service to diagnose cancer as early and quickly as possible and to treat it faster, to improve outcomes. This will help cancer patients across England, including in Yorkshire.We are improv...