00:00Yeah, we're really pleased that in a few days we're going to be publishing our national cancer plan.
00:05A big part of that is about ending the postcode lottery on cancer.
00:09For far too long, where you live determines the speed of diagnosis that you get and also the quality of the treatment that you receive.
00:19A number of measures to address that. First of all, on technology.
00:23So it's very fragmented at the moment. The different trusts adopt different technologies.
00:30And it's kind of up to them how they use them.
00:32And what that's led to is too much of this technology being concentrated in the cities.
00:39So we need to get that changed. So what we're doing is giving that responsibility to NICE.
00:45For the first time ever, NICE are going to have a national role in approving technology.
00:50And once it's approved, just like a medicine is now, it then has to be available and rolled out across the entire country,
00:57regardless of which trust it goes to. So that's how we're going to get technology out of the cities and more into rural and coastal areas.
01:05And then on the workforce. So again, too many cancer specialists concentrated in cities.
01:13We need to rebalance that.
01:16We need to rebalance that.
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