Cancer Services: North-west London Debate

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Department: Department of Health and Social Care

Cancer Services: North-west London

Karin Smyth Excerpts
Thursday 4th December 2025

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Thanks to our investment and modernisation of the NHS, the Government are putting cancer services on the road to recovery by opening up community diagnostic centres on evenings and weekends, building new surgical hubs and investing in new radiotherapy machines… This year, an extra 193,000 patients received a timely diagnosis or the all-clear compared with the previous year.

[Official Report, 25 November 2025; Vol. 776, c. 194.]

Written correction submitted by the Minister for Secondary Care, the hon. Member for Bristol South (Karin Smyth):

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Thanks to our investment and modernisation of the NHS, the Government are putting cancer services on the road to recovery by opening up community diagnostic centres on evenings and weekends, building new surgical hubs and investing in new radiotherapy machines… This year, an extra 193,000 patients received a timely diagnosis or the all-clear compared with the year before the election.