PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Cancer: Stockport (17 November 2020)
Question Asked
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support people living with cancer in Stockport during the second wave of the covid-19 outbreak.
Asked by:
Navendu Mishra (Labour)
Asked by:
Navendu Mishra (Labour)
Answer
During this second wave, cancer has been prioritised in the Greater Manchester area, including Stockport, and this has been agreed across all 11 hospital providers, to continue cancer surgery and at designated COVID-19 ‘green-sites’, ensuring the safety of staff and patients to enable procedures to continue to go ahead.
Measures are in place, as in the first wave, to work together with hospitals around the whole of Greater Manchester to share provisions of staff and resources to ensure that patients from Stockport and every other locality in Greater Manchester have access to cancer treatment and important diagnostic procedures.
Answered by:
Jo Churchill (Conservative)
22 December 2020
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