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Skin Cancer: Health Education
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to promote awareness of skin cancer (a) prevention measures, (b) signs and (c) symptoms.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 14 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 16 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 5 Feb 2025 · 22 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
14 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to promote awareness of skin cancer (a) prevention measures, (b) signs and (c) symptoms.
16 Jan 2025
Target answer date
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5 Feb 2025
Answer published
The Department continues to advise patients to follow National Health Service guidance on reducing the risk of skin cancer. This advice is available publicly on the National Health Service website, at the following link:https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/melan...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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