Haematological Cancer: Nurses
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Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many haematological cancer patients have access to a clinical nurse specialist.
This question was answered on 6th March 2018
NHS England does not hold information about numbers of patients with access to a Clinical Nurse Specialist. In the 2016 national cancer patient experience survey, 90% of the 72,788 respondents said that they were given the name of a Clinical Nurse Specialist who would support them through their treatment.