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Blood Cancer: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to address the regional variation in (a) access and (b) uptake to timely treatments for blood cancer patients.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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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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3 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to address the regional variation in (a) access and (b) uptake to timely treatments for blood cancer patients.
7 Jan 2025
Target answer date
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8 Jan 2025
Answer published
We will get the National Health Service diagnosing blood cancer earlier and treating it faster. We will start by delivering an extra 40,000 operations, scans, and appointments each week, as the first step to ensuring early diagnosis and faster treatment.T...

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