Breast Cancer Screening Debate

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Henry Smith

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Breast Cancer Screening

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Wednesday 2nd May 2018

(6 years, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Jeremy Hunt Portrait Mr Hunt
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That is a good point. I can assure my hon. Friend that the Department will be leading a big consultation exercise so that everyone is informed about how their individual organisations will be affected.

Henry Smith Portrait Henry Smith (Crawley) (Con)
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As chair of the all-party parliamentary group on blood cancer, I am pleased that the Secretary of State talked about the lessons that will be learned from this breast screening error. Will he assure me that what is picked up will inform future diagnostic programmes?

Jeremy Hunt Portrait Mr Hunt
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Absolutely. That will be one of the most important things that the review does.

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