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Written Question
Community Diagnostic Centres
Tuesday 5th December 2023

Asked by: Julie Marson (Conservative - Hertford and Stortford)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent progress she has made on increasing the number of community diagnostic centres.

Answered by Victoria Atkins - Shadow Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

  • Thanks to the hard work of NHS teams, the government is on track to not only meet our ambition of opening 160 community diagnostic centres more broadly across England by March 2025, but to exceed it.

  • This will represent a step change in how diagnostics is deployed in the UK and directly supports our agenda to make access to health services faster for patients.

  • 136 centres are currently operational, and over 5 million additional tests have been delivered since July 2021. This includes the centre in my honourable friends’ constituency, Bishop’s Stortford CDC.

  • I am pleased to endorse the Hon. Members' welcome of the new CDC. Bishops Stortford CDC has been delivering tests and checks to patients since Sept this year.

Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 08 Jun 2022
Cancer Care: Young Adults

"I beg to move,

That this House has considered cancer care for young adults.

It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Paisley. Normally I would say that it is a pleasure to be here in Westminster Hall speaking on a particular issue but, of course, it is …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 08 Jun 2022
Cancer Care: Young Adults

"The hon. Member is quite right. Early diagnosis saves lives. I will mention some of the figures that prove that using technology and the right processes and procedures during that diagnosis phase is critical to saving lives. These are real people and real lives. I absolutely agree with the hon. …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 08 Jun 2022
Cancer Care: Young Adults

"I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his intervention. I will go on to talk about the danger of not expecting to find symptoms of cancer in children and young adults, and the terrible consequences that delays and misdiagnoses can have, as they did in Jess’s case—it is too often …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 08 Jun 2022
Cancer Care: Young Adults

"I appreciate my right hon. and learned Friend’s intervention. I will come on to talk about some of the things he raised, because he puts his finger on some of the most important aspects of how GPs manage their diagnosis process. The diagnostic centres are fantastic, but they need to …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 08 Jun 2022
Cancer Care: Young Adults

"I very much welcome the hon. Lady’s intervention. She is absolutely right. Her work to raise awareness of ovarian and breast cancer is all part of that hugely important process. I lost a dear friend to ovarian cancer, and it is a very difficult and unspecific thing to diagnose, or …..."
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Speech in Westminster Hall - Wed 08 Jun 2022
Cancer Care: Young Adults

"The Minister makes a really important point about the practicalities and technicalities of implementing something such as Jess’s law, and I absolutely appreciate that. The example she gave of IT systems being different across GP practices illustrates how important it is to standardise procedure. Patients should not be reliant on …..."
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Written Question
Dental Services: Hertford and Stortford
Friday 25th March 2022

Asked by: Julie Marson (Conservative - Hertford and Stortford)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many dental practices in Hertford and Stortford constituency have applied for part of the £50 million funding intended to support the creation of more dentistry appointments.

Answered by Maria Caulfield

The information is not held centrally.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 03 Dec 2021
Health and Social Care

"Two weeks ago today, my hon. Friend was very generous with his time and in his support for the tragic case of my constituent, Jessica Brady, who passed away aged 27 from cancer. Will he confirm that the funding to support the NHS and the focus on policies such as …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Fri 19 Nov 2021
Cancer Diagnoses: Young People in Hertfordshire

"I wish to start by pointing out that this debate really does not belong to me. It belongs to Jessica Brady, as it is her tragic story that brings us all here today. The first thing I want to do is pay tribute to Jessica’s parents, Andrea and Simon Brady. …..."
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