Question follow-through · 47307
Bowel Cancer: South East
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps he has taken to increase awareness of bowel cancer symptoms in (a) Slough and (b) the South East.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 23 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 25 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 29 Apr 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent steps he has taken to increase awareness of bowel cancer symptoms in (a) Slough and (b) the South East.
25 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
29 Apr 2025
Answer published
NHS England runs Help Us Help You campaigns to increase knowledge of cancer symptoms and address barriers to acting on them, to encourage people to come forward as soon as possible to see their general practitioner. The campaigns run across England and is...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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