Cancer: Health Services
(asked on 19th February 2021) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of the additional £1 billion allocated in the 2020 November Spending Review to tackle waiting lists will be allocated to tackling the cancer backlog.
This question was answered on 24th February 2021
Arrangements for distributing the £1 billion funding, announced in the recent Spending Review, are still under consideration as the National Health Service continues to work through the current COVID-19 surge. In addition, the review also confirmed that there will be £325 million of new investment in NHS diagnostics equipment to improve clinical outcomes.