Cancer: Charities

(asked on 9th June 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential effect on the implementation of the NHS Cancer Plan of the loss of income of medical research charities specialising in cancer research.


Answered by
Helen Whately Portrait
Helen Whately
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 25th June 2020

The NHS Long Term Plan (January 2019) sets out that the National Health Service will speed up the path from innovation to business-as-usual, spreading proven new techniques and technologies and reducing variation. New investments will ensure the next generation of treatments are implemented rapidly across the NHS.

Medical research charities are an integral part of the United Kingdom’s world-leading life sciences sector. The Department is closely liaising with the Association of Medical Research Charities, as well as individual charities, to understand the impact of the pandemic on this sector and identify how best the Government and charities can work together to ensure that patients continue benefiting from charity funded research.

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