Question follow-through · 16329
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.
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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, what steps he is taking to help reduce the number of cases of late diagnoses of blood cancers in emergency NHS settings.
28 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
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 ...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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