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Blood Cancer: Diagnosis

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help reduce the number of cases of late diagnoses of blood cancers in emergency NHS settings.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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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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  1. 26 Nov 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help reduce the number of cases of late diagnoses of blood cancers in emergency NHS settings.

  2. 28 Nov 2024

    Target answer date

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  3. 2 Dec 2024

    Answer published

    It is a priority for the Government to support the National Health Service to diagnose cancer, including blood cancer, as early and quickly as possible, and to treat it faster, to improve outcomes.The Department is committing to this by improving waiting ...

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