Cancer: Patients
(asked on 7th March 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to reduce the number of missing cancer patients.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 10th March 2022
We have committed to returning the number of people waiting over 62 days to start treatment to pre-pandemic levels and increase referrals by encouraging patients to come forward. The ‘Help us help you’ campaign is raising awareness of cancer symptoms and encourages those with symptoms to use the National Health Service.