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Cancer

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, If he will make it his policy to publish a national cancer plan.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 22 Jul 2024
Target answer date: 25 Jul 2024
Answer: 25 Jul 2024 · 3 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

22 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, If he will make it his policy to publish a national cancer plan.
25 Jul 2024
Target answer date
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25 Jul 2024
Answer published
The NHS Long Term Plan, published in January 2019, sets out the National Health Service’s key ambitions on cancer. The plan sets out the NHS ambition to increase the number of cancers diagnosed at stages 1 and 2 to 75% by 2028, and to increase the number ...

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