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1686751

	registered interest
	date	01/02/2024
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Breast Cancer: Screening
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment she has made of the adequacy of availability of follow up MRI scans for women who have undergone mastectomies to tackle lobular breast cancer.
	tabling member constituency	Darlington
	tabling member printed	Peter Gibson
	uin	12666
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2024 answer text <p><del class="ministerial">No specific assessment has been made of the adequacy of availability of follow up magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans for women who have undergone mastectomies, to tackle lobular breast cancer.</del></p><p>£2.3 billion was awarded at Spending Review 2021 to transform diagnostic services over the next three years. Most of this will help increase the number of community diagnostic centres up to 160 by March 2025, expanding and protecting elective planned diagnostic services. The remainder of the funding will increase capacity for imaging, including MRI scans, endoscopy as well as lung and mammography screening, and improve digital diagnostics.</p><p>Growth in the MRI asset base and increased use of MRI acceleration software is creating additional capacity for approximately 572,000 MRI examinations per annum within the NHS in England.</p><p>The Department and NHS England have taken steps to improve the treatment of invasive lobular breast cancer (ILBC) but are aware that more needs to be done. In September 2022, the National Cancer Audit Collaborating Centre announced funding from NHS England and the Welsh Government of £5.4 million to support delivery of six new national cancer audits. Two of these focus on breast cancer, one on primary and one on metastatic, and include ILBC.</p><p>Additionally, the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) supports breast cancer research funded by research partners in the charity and public sectors. Over the last five years, the NIHR Clinical Research Network has supported 10 ILBC-related studies.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 08/02/2024 15:42:40 question first ministerially corrected 08/02/2024 16:01:34 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson previous answer version 16540 answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	4754 label Biography information for Peter Gibson

1684276

	registered interest
	date	17/01/2024
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Community Diagnostic Centres
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent progress she has made on increasing the number of tests carried out at community diagnostic centres.
	tabling member constituency	South Derbyshire
	tabling member printed	Mrs Heather Wheeler
	uin	901122
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/01/2024 answer text <ul><li>I am pleased to inform my Hon. Friend that CDCs have now delivered over 6 million additional tests since July 2021 thanks to the hard work of NHS staff.</li></ul><ul><li>The number of tests provided by these centres has grown by an average of 13,000 (6%) each month over the last 12 months.</li></ul><ul><li><ins class="ministerial">150 centres are currently operational, and the programme is on track to meet its target of 160 CDCs by March 2025, with many due to open ahead of schedule. </ins></li></ul> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 23/01/2024 15:43:32 question first ministerially corrected 23/01/2024 17:51:19 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson previous answer version 13107 answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	4053 label Biography information for Mrs Heather Wheeler

1675274

	registered interest
	date	04/12/2023
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	NHS Learning Support Fund: Pharmacy
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, for what reason students studying Masters of Pharmacy courses do not qualify for support from the NHS Learning Support Fund.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Riverside
	tabling member printed	Kim Johnson
	uin	5132
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/12/2023 answer text <p>The Learning Support Fund (LSF) is available <ins class="ministerial">broadly</ins><del class="ministerial">only</del> to those courses which were eligible for the NHS Bursary prior to the 2017 reforms, and therefore, subjects such as pharmacy are outside of the scope of the LSF arrangements.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 06/12/2023 15:46:56 question first ministerially corrected 21/12/2023 14:14:55 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson previous answer version 5737 answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	4824 label Biography information for Kim Johnson