| Heading: |
Cancer: Young People |
| Question ID: |
1808836 |
| UIN: |
57114 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-03 |
| 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: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the NHS plans to take to improve (a) awareness and (b) training for (i) GPs and (ii) frontline healthcare professionals to help (A) recognise and (B) refer suspected cases of cancer in t |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-23 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4981 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Ashley Dalton
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| Answering Member handle: |
AshleyDalton_MP
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@AshleyDalton_MP
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| Answer text: |
The Department is committed to getting the National Health Service diagnosing cancer earlier and treating it faster to improve survival rates, including for children and young people. To achieve this, the NHS has delivered an extra 40,000 operations, scan... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |