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<p>The Department works closely with NHS England on a wide range of issues relating
to cancer, and to deliver the key priorities on cancer as set out in the NHS Long
Term Plan. Current priorities include work on improving cancer survival rates through
earlier diagnosis, and reducing cancer treatment waiting times across England, including
the time between an urgent general practice referral and the commencement of treatment.
The Government is working jointly with NHS England on implementing the delivery plan
for tackling the COVID-19 backlogs in elective care, 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 and treatment activity.</p><p>On 14 August 2023, the Government
published a strategic framework for the Major Conditions Strategy to consider the
six conditions, including cancer, that contribute most to morbidity and mortality
across the population in England. This is because we recognise that most cancer patients
will have at least one other condition, so we are developing a Major Conditions Strategy
that will include cancer. The Major Conditions Strategy will apply a geographical
lens to each condition, to address regional disparities in health outcomes, supporting
the levelling up mission to narrow the gap in healthy life expectancy by 2030.</p>
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