Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps they plan to take to ensure blood cancer patients are given greater choice in decisions about their treatment and care within the 10-year NHS plan.

As part of the Government’s five long-term missions, we have launched a 10-Year Health Plan to reform the National Health Service and make it fit for the future. To help shape this Plan, the government is currently inviting the public, including blood cancer patients, to share their views, experiences and ideas at the Change NHS online portal.

Following publication of the 10-Year Health Plan, we will develop a new national cancer plan, which will include further details on how we will improve outcomes for cancer patients, including those with blood cancer. We are in discussions about what form that plan should take, its relationship to the 10-Year Health Plan and the Government’s wider Health Mission and will provide updates on this in due course.