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Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 2034, tabled on 29 July 2024

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans he has to implement a cancer strategy over the course of this Parliament.

Answered on

2 September 2024

Professor Lord Darzi is currently undertaking an independent investigation into the state of the National Health Service, the findings of which will feed into the Government’s 10-year plan to build a health service that is fit for the future. The Government will set out any further priorities on cancer and health in due course.

The NHS Long-Term Plan, published in January 2019, sets out the NHS’s key ambitions on cancer. The plan sets out the ambition to increase the number of cancers diagnosed at stage one and two to 75% by 2028, and to increase the number of people surviving cancer for five years by 55,000 as a result.