Publish date: 4 February 2026
Today is World Cancer Day and the DHSC has published the National Cancer Plan. The ambitious plan sets out how we will improve cancer care, diagnose people earlier, tackle health inequalities and help people live longer and beyond cancer.
The National Cancer Plan sets out a bold, long-term approach to improving cancer outcomes, experience and equity over the next decade. Shaped by lived experience, the Plan focuses on earlier diagnosis, improved performance, better quality of life and reducing inequalities, embedding the three shifts and new care model from the 10 Year Health Plan into cancer pathways. The central ambition is that by 2035, three in four people diagnosed with cancer will be cancer-free, or living well with cancer after five years, delivering the fastest improvement in cancer survival this century.
