Breast Cancer: Greater London

(asked on 22nd November 2024) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve breast cancer screening in (a) London and (b) Wimbledon constituency.


Answered by
Andrew Gwynne Portrait
Andrew Gwynne
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 28th November 2024

NHS England has developed a national improvement plan, in collaboration with key stakeholders such as cancer alliances, to improve uptake within the breast screening programme.

The plan sets out the priorities, interventions, and the monitoring of impacts and outcomes to be achieved to improve uptake, through: expanding access; data and analytics; reducing inequalities; contracting; communication; and IT developments.

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