Pathology

(asked on 19th December 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what assessment he has made of the implications for (a) his and (b) the NHS's policies of the findings of Cancer Research UK's report entitled, Testing times to come: an evaluation of pathology capacity in the UK, published in November 2016.


Answered by
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David Mowat
This question was answered on 11th January 2017

The Government welcomes the publication in November 2016 of the Cancer Research UK, Testing times to come: an evaluation of pathology capacity in the UK. Pathology services play a major role in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, as well as many other conditions.

The Department’s national delivery partners are working to modernise the delivery of pathology services in the National Health Service in England, and reviewing the workforce and training that will be required in the future.

Health is a devolved matter in the rest of the United Kingdom.

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