Question follow-through · 91525
Pancreatic Cancer: Community Diagnostic Centres
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his department has made of the potential merits of a national rollout of community diagnostic centres to improve access to primary care services for people with pancreatic cancer.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 17 Nov 2025
- Target answer date
- 19 Nov 2025
- Answer
- 24 Nov 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
17 Nov 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his department has made of the potential merits of a national rollout of community diagnostic centres to improve access to primary care services for people with pancreatic cancer.
19 Nov 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Nov 2025
Answer published
The Department remains committed to improving access to cancer diagnostic services and treatment, including for harder to diagnose tumour types such as pancreatic cancer.The Government’s continued investment in community diagnostic centres (CDCs) enables ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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