PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
(12 November 2024)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if his Department will make an assessment of the potential merits of creating an internal league table comparing UK cancer (a) care and (b) waiting times with other developed countries.

Asked by:
Rupert Lowe (Restore Britain)

The Department has no current plans to create such an internal league table. Professor Lord Darzi has undertaken an independent investigation into the state of the National Health Service, the findings of which were published on 12 September 2024 and will feed into the Government’s 10-Year Health Plan to build a health service that is fit for the future. The Government will therefore set out any further priorities on cancer and health for England in due course.

The Department remains committed to improving cancer survival rates by hitting all NHS cancer waiting time targets within five years, so no patient waits longer than they should.

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