Question follow-through · 49848
Breast Cancer: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take to reduce (a) geographical, (b) socioeconomic and (c) cultural differences in breast cancer care.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 1 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 6 May 2025
- Answer
- 15 May 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
1 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to take to reduce (a) geographical, (b) socioeconomic and (c) cultural differences in breast cancer care.
6 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
15 May 2025
Answer published
The National Health Service is committed to ensuring that all cancer patients in England, including women with breast cancer, have access to personalised care, including a needs assessment, a care plan, and health and wellbeing information and support. Ps...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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