Question follow-through · 11920
Breast Cancer: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve the number of breast cancer diagnoses at mammogram or other early stages.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 30 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 6 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 6 Nov 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
30 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve the number of breast cancer diagnoses at mammogram or other early stages.
6 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
6 Nov 2024
Answer published
Lord Darzi’s report has set out the scale of the challenges we face in fixing the National Health Service and the need to improve cancer waiting time performance and cancer survival, including for breast cancer. In particular, he has highlighted the need ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Breast Cancer: Diagnosis
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Breast Cancer: Diagnosis
25 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of including breast density in medical data collection, in the context of diagnosing breast cancer.
HMP Wandsworth: Health Services
25 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made with Cabinet colleagues of the adequacy of healthcare provision in HMP Wandsworth.
Health Services: Prisons
25 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve the quality of healthcare provision across the prison estate.
Dental Services: Fees and Charges
10 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to make dentistry more affordable.
Dental Services: Fees and Charges
10 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of increasing the regulation of private dental charges.
Health Services: Standards
13 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the (a) efficacy and (b) efficiency of NHS Pathways.
Fractures: Health Services
24 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) develop and (b) improve Fracture Liaison Services.
Fractures: Health Services
24 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of fracture liaison services in southwest London.
Osteoporosis: Health Services
24 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support people diagnosed with osteoporosis.
Doctors: Migrant Workers
4 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of reinstating the restriction on international medical graduates in the first round of selection for NHS speciality training programmes.
Doctors: Training
4 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase the proportion of UK medical graduates in NHS speciality training places.