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Blood Cancer: Diagnosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the effectiveness of non-specific symptom pathways in diagnosing blood cancers in each of the last three years.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 26 Nov 2024
Target answer date: 28 Nov 2024
Answer: 2 Dec 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

26 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made an assessment of the effectiveness of non-specific symptom pathways in diagnosing blood cancers in each of the last three years.
28 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
2 Dec 2024
Answer published
We will get the National Health Service diagnosing cancer earlier and treating it faster, including blood cancer. This is supported by NHS England’s key ambition on cancer, to meet the Faster Diagnosis Standard, which sets a target of 28 days from urgent ...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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