Cancer: Health Services
(asked on 19th January 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to publish cancer catch-up programmes for each health area.
To support overall restoration and recovery work across the country, NHS England and NHS Improvement established a Cancer Recovery Taskforce, bringing together colleagues from across the cancer community to input into the development, publication and delivery of the national cancer recovery plan. The recovery plan was published on 14 December at the following link:
The plan outlines actions under the three key aims from phase three for recovering cancer services. These are to restore demand at least to pre-pandemic levels, take immediate steps to reduce the number of people waiting over 62 days from urgent referral and ensure sufficient capacity to meet demand. NHS England and NHS Improvement look to National Health Service regions and Cancer Alliances to lead the recovery locally.