| Heading: |
Colonoscopy: Waiting Lists |
| Question ID: |
1745550 |
| UIN: |
16855 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2024-11-28 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5207 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Clive Jones
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Clive Jones
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| Member interest: |
true |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) increase the capacity of colonoscopy services and (b) ensure patients from the bowel cancer screening programme are seen within the targeted waiting times |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2024-12-05 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
1506 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Andrew Gwynne
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| Answering Member handle: |
GwynneMP
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@GwynneMP
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| Answer text: |
The National Health Service is taking steps to improve bowel cancer outcomes for patients across England. We will improve cancer survival rates and hit all NHS cancer waiting time targets, so no patient, including those referred through the bowel cancer s... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |