Question follow-through · 21702
Glioblastoma: Diagnosis
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve NHS diagnostic processes for glioblastoma brain tumours.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 3 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 8 Jan 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve NHS diagnostic processes for glioblastoma brain tumours.
7 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Jan 2025
Answer published
The Department is working with NHS England in taking steps to improve diagnostic processes in the National Health Service for all patients with cancer, including those with glioblastoma brain tumours.We will get the NHS diagnosing cancer, including brain ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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