Health: Pancreatic Cancer Debate
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Lord Forsyth of Drumlean
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Health: Pancreatic Cancer
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Lord Forsyth of Drumlean (Con)
My Lords, the Government’s current campaign to encourage people to go and see their GP if they have symptoms is commendable, but how can this help when people are waiting months to get scans and then weeks to get the results of their scan? What can be done about this?
Lord Markham (Con)
This is where we see the diagnostic centres being a key area in this. We have set up 91 community diagnostic centres. In addition, in 2020 we had only 12 non-specific symptoms pathways; we are now rolling those out to 96, so that 75% of the population will be covered by March 2023, with a target of 100% by March 2024.