Pancreatic Cancer: Diagnosis
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of trends in levels of improvements to diagnostic services for pancreatic cancer since July 2024.
Answered by Ashley Dalton
We will support the National Health Service to transform diagnostic services by spending £1.65 billion on additional capacity, including new surgical hubs and diagnostic scanners, to support the delivery of over 30,000 more procedures and 1.25 million diagnostic tests as they come online.
Performance against the Faster Diagnosis Standard for upper gastrointestinal cancer for the period July 2024 to February 2025 was 76.2%. This is a 3.1% increase over the same period in the previous year, from July 2023 to February 2024.
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