Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment of the adequacy of the provision of treatment for myeloma.

The Department and NHS England are committed to transforming cancer services across the country, taking an all cancer approach to improvement. The National Health Service Cancer Programme has established a number of initiatives to support the delivery of this ambition including. This includes Wave 2 of the Accelerate, Coordination and Evaluation programme testing a new approach to diagnosing patients with vague symptoms, often characteristic of hard to diagnose cancers like haematological cancers. In addition, since July 2016 the Cancer Drugs Fund has either funded or is currently funding 39 treatments for blood cancers, including six for myeloma.