| Heading: |
Gastrointestinal Cancer: Health Services |
| Question ID: |
1810576 |
| UIN: |
58196 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-09 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4005 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Bob Blackman
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| Asking Member handle: |
BobBlackman
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@BobBlackman
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to reduce the number of people with lower gastrointestinal cancers waiting beyond 62 days from urgent referral for their first definitive treatment. |
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false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-17 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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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: |
We will get the National Health Service diagnosing cancer earlier and treating it faster, so more patients survive, including those with bowel cancer. As the first step to ensure faster diagnosis and treatment, the NHS is delivering an extra 40,000 operat... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |