Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of trends in the instances of blood cancer being diagnosed after an emergency admission; and if he will make a statement.

In 2015, the latest year for which data are available, the percentage of patients diagnosed after an emergency presentation in England for all blood cancers was 28% (7,626 of 26,869).

There has been a fall in the percentage diagnosed through this emergency presentation route over the last 10 years for some of these cancers: chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (26% in 2006 down to 13% in 2015), multiple myeloma (37% down to 31%), and other haematological malignancies (37% down to 25%). The proportion over time in the other groups remained relatively stable.

As a proportion of all emergency diagnoses, the proportion of blood cancers diagnosed as an emergency was 12% in 2011 and 13% in each of 2012-2015.