Prostate Cancer: Health Services
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that people with an early prostate cancer diagnosis can quickly access (a) treatment and (b) care.
Answered by Ashley Dalton
Improving access to treatment and care are key priorities for the Government for all cancer types, including prostate cancer.
To achieve this, we have delivered an extra 40,000 operations, scans, and appointments each week, during our first year in Government as the first step to ensuring early diagnosis and faster treatment. Additionally, we will spend £70 million on new radiotherapy machines, to ensure the most advanced treatment is available to patients who need it.
Our forthcoming National Cancer Plan will include further details on how we will improve outcomes for cancer patients, as well as improving access to treatment and care.
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