Cancer Therapies Access - Question

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 3:08 pm on 6 February 2023.

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Photo of Lord Hunt of Kings Heath Lord Hunt of Kings Heath Labour 3:08, 6 February 2023

My Lords, behind this Question lies an even more worrying fact, which is that the NHS is very, very slow to adopt new medicines and new treatments. Does the Minister accept that our very poor outcomes for cancer in relation to many OECD countries are partly down to this lack of adoption of proven new treatments? What are the Government doing to turn this around?