Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to reduce geographic variation in mortality rates for bladder cancer.

Cancer Alliances are a vehicle for bringing together senior clinical and managerial leaders to plan for and lead the delivery of the transformation required to implement the Cancer Taskforce strategy locally, taking a whole-pathway and cross-organisational approach. Alliances will help to reduce variation in outcomes and in access to high-quality, evidence-based interventions across whole pathways of care and for the Alliance’s whole population.