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Greg Smith Excerpts
Tuesday 23rd April 2024

(1 week, 6 days ago)

Commons Chamber
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Victoria Atkins Portrait Victoria Atkins
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I would be delighted to join my hon. Friend, and I thank him again for a really positive visit to his local hospital. That is a great example of a local MP working in his local area for his constituents and, what is more, delivering for them.

Greg Smith Portrait Greg Smith (Buckingham) (Con)
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As a practical measure to improve radiotherapy waiting times, will the Minister agree to further work on the radiotherapy dataset, to include the collection of data on delays at each stage of the radiotherapy pathway, and by tumour type, so that we can better understand pinch points in services?

Andrew Stephenson Portrait Andrew Stephenson
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We are working to improve radiotherapy services across the NHS, and I would be happy to meet my hon. Friend to discuss that in more detail.