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<p>No recent Ministerial discussions have taken place on the potential for Patient
Reported Outcome Measures to be used to measure improvements in outcomes for breast
cancer patients.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>NHS England took over responsibility
for the Cancer Patient Experience Survey (CPES) on 1 April 2013. The development of
the CPES is overseen by the Cancer Patient Experience Advisory Group (CPEAG), which
has a wide ranging membership including clinicians, cancer charities, experts in survey
methodologies, research bodies, health service commissioners and NHS England staff.</p><p>
</p><p>The survey questionnaire is reviewed by CPEAG each year to ensure that it captures
the best information and as part of the process for the next survey, NHS England is
engaging with a range of stakeholders to look at how it can improve and amend the
survey appropriately.</p><p> </p><p>In the meantime, NHS England has added a new question
to the 2014 survey questionnaire to identify patients who have been diagnosed with
cancer more than once because the evidence suggests that there may be a difference
in the experience of those patients.</p><p> </p><p>The results of the 2014 survey
will be published later this year.</p>
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