Debate contribution: ‘A Cancer Strategy for Northern Ireland 2022-2032’
Debate contribution by Mr Robin Swann on .
- MLA
- Mr Robin Swann
- Party at the time
- Ulster Unionist Party
- Date
- 4 March 2024
- Type
- Debate contribution (made as a minister)
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- ‘A Cancer Strategy for Northern Ireland 2022-2032’
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 4254489
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I thank the Member for an important question on how to take what we are doing now and future-proof and develop it. Those rapid diagnostic centres were established in four of the five trust areas so that a vague symptom pathway was available for patients with non-specific but worrying symptoms that may indicate cancer. There are now plans to make that service available across the entire region by the summer. Additionally, a project group has been established to consider new cancer pathways where the rapid diagnosis centre model could improve outcomes for patients.
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