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Pancreatic Cancer: Health Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to (a) improve awareness of pancreatic cancer symptoms and (b) help ensure GPs receive appropriate training on recognising the symptoms of pancreatic cancer a

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 12 Feb 2025
Target answer date: 24 Feb 2025
Answer: 24 Feb 2025 · 12 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

12 Feb 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to (a) improve awareness of pancreatic cancer symptoms and (b) help ensure GPs receive appropriate training on recognising the symptoms of pancreatic cancer a
24 Feb 2025
Target answer date
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24 Feb 2025
Answer published
NHS England is already taking steps to deliver a range of interventions to improve awareness of pancreatic cancer symptoms. NHS England runs Help Us Help You campaigns to increase knowledge of cancer symptoms and address barriers to acting on them, to enc...

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