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<p>The Department is working with NHS England to increase diagnosis rate for those
with cancer across England and plans to spend more than £8 billion from 2022/23 to
2024/25 to help drive up and protect elective activity, including cancer diagnosis,
as set out in the Elective Recovery Plan published in February 2022. In addition,
the Government awarded £2.3 billion at the 2021 Spending Review to transform diagnostic
services over the next three years, most of which will help increase the number of
Community Diagnostic Centres (CDCs) up to 160 by March 2025, prioritising CDCs for
cancer services.</p><p>The National Health Service has implemented ‘non-specific symptom
pathways’ for patients who have symptoms that do not align to a particular type of
tumour, including for non-specific symptoms of pancreatic cancer. As of June 2023,
there are 108 pathways currently in place with the aim to have national coverage by
March 2024.</p><p>To encourage people to see their general practitioner if they notice
symptoms that could be cancer, NHS England runs the ‘Help Us, Help You’ campaigns,
which address the barriers that deter patients from accessing the NHS.</p>
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