Cancer: Health Services
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what progress his Department has made on implementing the National Cancer Plan.
Answered by Mrs Sharon Hodgson
The National Cancer Plan was published in February 2026. The Department has taken steps to implement the plan’s commitments and ambitions to be delivered within the next ten years. While immediate focus is on those to be delivered in 2026, all commitments are being considered by the various delivery partners involved.
A reformed National Cancer Board, jointly chaired by the Department and an independent representative, will track progress and provide regular updates to ministers.
Across the life of the plan, ministers will publish an annual summary of progress, along with a more in-depth report after three years to assess where the plan may need updating and refreshing.
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