Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to provide mental health support to people diagnosed with haematological cancer.

Haematological cancer patients are able to access psychosocial mental health services provided for the wider group of cancer patients, usually in cancer centres, which provide multi-disciplinary psychological assessment and support as part of the cancer team. This support is offered from the point of diagnosis and in addition to trained members of the multi-disciplinary team, specialist support may be provided by a clinical psychologist or liaison psychiatrist.