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Brain Cancer: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps with his counterparts in the devolved Administrations to implement a national brain cancer strategy.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
9 Jan 2025
Target answer date
13 Jan 2025
Answer
13 Jan 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 9 Jan 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps with his counterparts in the devolved Administrations to implement a national brain cancer strategy.

  2. 13 Jan 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 13 Jan 2025

    Answer published

    Health Services across the United Kingdom are devolved. In England, we are developing a 10-year plan to radically reform the National Health Service, and my Rt Hon. friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, has been clear that there needs...

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