Health Professions: Cancer
(asked on 19th June 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that NHS cancer professionals are not redeployed to work on the response to the covid-19 outbreak.
On 8 June 2020, the National Cancer Director, Dame Cally Palmer, and the National Clinical Director for Cancer, Professor Peter Johnson, wrote to the National Health Service system outlining the second phase of NHS response to COVID-19 for cancer services. The letter contained a number of actions to enable cancer services that have been affected by the pandemic to resume and continue to provide care for patients. It is recognised that cancer professionals play an important role in delivering those important services. Further details can be found at the following link: