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To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) increasing public awareness of the symptoms of, (b) provide timely access to (i) diagnostic tests and (ii) treatments for and (c) otherwise take steps to
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 8 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 12 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 14 Nov 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) increasing public awareness of the symptoms of, (b) provide timely access to (i) diagnostic tests and (ii) treatments for and (c) otherwise take steps to
12 Nov 2024
Target answer date
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14 Nov 2024
Answer published
NHS England runs Help Us Help You campaigns to increase knowledge of cancer symptoms and address barriers to acting on them, to encourage people to come forward as soon as possible to see their general practitioner. The campaigns focus on a range of sympt...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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