Cancer Survival Rates

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Health – in the House of Commons at 11:30 am on 22 March 2016.

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Photo of Jane Ellison Jane Ellison The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Health 11:30, 22 March 2016

This, of course, is one of the areas covered by the cancer taskforce, and it is a very important matter. Cally Palmer, the NHS national cancer director and chief executive of the Royal Marsden, is leading on taskforce implementation. The replacement of LINACs is being taken into consideration in planning improvements across the pathway. That can only be done because we are putting into the NHS and into cancer treatment the money that we need to achieve those world-class outcomes.