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Bowel Cancer: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will provide additional funding for improved endoscopy equipment for diagnosing bowel cancer.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
11 Sept 2024
Target answer date
7 Oct 2024
Answer
8 Oct 2024 · 27 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 11 Sept 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will provide additional funding for improved endoscopy equipment for diagnosing bowel cancer.

  2. 7 Oct 2024

    Target answer date

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  3. 8 Oct 2024

    Answer published

    Increasing capacity to meet the demand for diagnostic services is a priority for the Government. We are committed to providing the National Health Service with the latest technology, replacing outdated equipment to make diagnosis more accurate and timely,...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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Possible follow-up questions

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Audiology: Children

4 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the adequacy of the provision of (a) Auditory Verbal therapy and (b) other support available for deaf (i) babies and (ii) children to develop language and commu

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Audiology: Children

4 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential economic benefits of increasing access to Auditory Verbal therapy for deaf children.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Audiology: Children

4 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) help the NHS and local health services can maximise investment in (i) new-born hearing screening, (ii) cochlear implants, (iii) hearing aids and (iv) othe

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Audiology: Children

4 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the (a) outcomes achieved by deaf children who have been supported to learn to listen and speak with Auditory Verbal therapy delivered by a certifie

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

ME/CFS: Medical Treatments

9 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to ensure that the 2021 NICE Guideline for ME/CFS is implemented.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

ME/CFS: Health Services

9 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the safety of NHS care for patients with (a) severe and (b) very severe ME.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Long Covid and ME/CFS: Research

9 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he plans to leverage international cooperation to accelerate (a) biomedical research and (b) treatments for (i) ME and (ii) long covid.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Cancer: Young People

14 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce waiting times for the (a) diagnosis and (b) treatment of cancer in teenagers and young adults.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Cancer: Young People

14 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that young people with cancer have equity of access to (a) age-appropriate and (b) specialist psychological support.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Post-mortems

21 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that parents do not have to wait six months or more for post-mortem results following the death of a baby.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Family Hubs: Sunderland

9 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that Start for Life services in Sunderland are funded beyond 1 April 2025.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Childbirth

11 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to paragraph 69 of the House of Lords Preterm Birth Committee report entitled Preterm Birth: reducing risks and improving lives, HL 30, published on 14 November 2024, if his Departme