Question follow-through · 20579
Blood Cancer: Diagnosis
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to achieve national coverage of the NHS’ Non-Specific Symptom (NSS) diagnostic pathways for blood cancer.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 17 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 19 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 23 Dec 2024 · 6 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
17 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to achieve national coverage of the NHS’ Non-Specific Symptom (NSS) diagnostic pathways for blood cancer.
19 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
23 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 as quickly as possible, and to treat it faster, to improve outcomes.In addition to improving cancer waiting time performanc...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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