Cancer: Health Services
(asked on 15th October 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether additional cancer diagnostic and treatment capacity will be provided to local NHS trusts to help reach March 2022 targets.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
A further £5.4 billion funding package has been made available to the local National Health Service for October 2021 to March 2022 to support the recovery of services. This includes an additional £500 million of capital investment and an additional £1 billion for elective activity, which will support cancer services. As part of the Elective Recovery Fund, £20 million was made available to Cancer Alliances to accelerate cancer diagnosis and manage referrals.