Health: Cancer

Lord Strathclyde Excerpts
Wednesday 2nd March 2011

(13 years, 8 months ago)

Lords Chamber
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Lord Strathclyde Portrait The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Lord Strathclyde)
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My Lords, there has been no question from the Conservative Benches so perhaps on this occasion we can hear from my noble friend.

Lord Mawhinney Portrait Lord Mawhinney
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My noble friend, in his original Answer, talked about the importance of early diagnosis. Is he not concerned at the cascade of cases reported in the media of GPs sending patients home with flu symptoms and indigestion and not detecting the cancer until it is too late? What does my noble friend intend to do to improve GP training to assist the earlier diagnosis on which he rightly lays so much emphasis?