Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered at on 5 September 2025.
Fabian Hamilton
Labour, Leeds North East
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the National Cancer Plan will include targets to improve timely diagnosis of (a) myeloma and (b) other blood cancers.
Dr Caroline Johnson
Shadow Minister (Health and Social Care)
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure prioritisation of earlier diagnosis of myeloma in the National Cancer Plan.
Dr Caroline Johnson
Shadow Minister (Health and Social Care)
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the National Cancer Plan will include targets to improve diagnosis times for myeloma.
Lee Anderson
Reform UK, Ashfield
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make provision for the early diagnosis of blood cancers in the National Cancer Plan.
Liz Jarvis
Liberal Democrat, Eastleigh
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the forthcoming National Cancer Plan for England will include measures to improve the early diagnosis of blood cancers.
Richard Tice
Reform UK, Boston and Skegness
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help ensure that the forthcoming National Cancer Plan for England includes targeted measures to improve the early diagnosis of (a) myeloma and (b) other blood cancers.
Sarah Bool
Conservative, South Northamptonshire
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that the upcoming National Cancer Plan addresses challenges relating to delayed diagnosis for unstageable cancers.
Neil Duncan-Jordan
Independent, Poole
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will ensure that the National Cancer Plan for England includes targets to improve the diagnosis times of myeloma.
Luke Taylor
Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (London)
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will include targets to improve diagnosis times for myeloma in the forthcoming National Cancer Plan for England.
Luke Taylor
Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (London)
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will include targets to improve diagnosis times for myeloma in the National Cancer Plan for England.
Jessica Brown-Fuller
Liberal Democrat Spokesperson (Hospitals and Primary Care)
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether targets to improve early diagnosis of myeloma will form part of the national cancer plan.
Ashley Dalton
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health and Social Care
It is a priority for the Government to support the National Health Service to diagnose cancer, including blood cancers such as myeloma, as well as other unstageable cancers, as early and quickly as possible, and to treat it faster, in order to improve outcomes.
To tackle late diagnoses of blood cancers, the NHS is implementing non-specific symptom pathways for patients who present with symptoms such as weight loss and fatigue, which do not clearly align to a tumour type. Blood cancers are one of the most common cancer types diagnosed through these pathways.
We will get the NHS diagnosing blood cancer earlier and treating it faster, and we will support the NHS to increase capacity to meet the demand for diagnostic services through investment, including for magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography scanners.
The National Cancer Plan will include further details on how we will improve outcomes for cancer patients, including speeding up diagnosis and treatment, ensuring patients have access to the latest treatments and technology, and ultimately drive up this country’s cancer survival rates.
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