Given that the seven-day rolling average of covid deaths is now 24.9, with just 10 yesterday, and that in normal times the daily cancer death toll averages over 450—a figure sadly likely to rise due to delayed treatment and the disruption of the pandemic—what are the Government doing to catch up with the cancer screening and operations backlog and get the health service back towards other medical conditions so that the death toll from non-covid cases does not become the worst legacy of this emergency?
Covid-19 Update
Proceeding contribution from
Julian Sturdy
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 19 April 2021.
It occurred during Ministerial statement on Covid-19 Update.
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