| Heading: |
Bowel Cancer: Diagnosis |
| Question ID: |
1747005 |
| UIN: |
17870 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2024-12-04 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4667 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Mike Amesbury
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| Asking Member handle: |
MikeAmesburymp
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@MikeAmesburymp
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make assessment of the adequacy of diagnosis times for bowel cancer. |
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false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2024-12-09 |
| 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: |
Bowel cancer patients are waiting too long for diagnosis and treatment. However, we will improve survival rates and hit all National Health Service cancer waiting time targets, so no patient, including those with bowel cancer, waits longer than they shoul... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |