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1123356

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date	26/04/2019
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	Lung Cancer: Health Education
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to raise awareness of lung cancer among people that have never smoked cigarettes.
tabling member constituency	Mansfield
tabling member printed	Ben Bradley
uin	248070
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2019 answer text <p>Public Health England (PHE) continues to run awareness campaigns focused on the symptoms of lung cancer where the messaging is relevant to both smokers and non-smokers.</p><p>For example, the PHE Be Clear on Cancer ‘Respiratory Symptoms’ campaign encourages those with a persistent cough or inappropriate breathlessness to visit their doctor, with the aim of improving earlier diagnosis of heart and lung disease, including lung cancer. The campaign has run twice nationally, in 2016 and 2017. This campaign can be viewed at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.nhs.uk/be-clear-on-cancer" target="_blank">https://www.nhs.uk/be-clear-on-cancer</a></p><p>The precursor to this campaign centred on one main symptom, that of a persistent cough, as a possible symptom of lung cancer. This lung cancer campaign ran nationally three times, in 2012, 2013 and 2014.</p><p>The Be Clear on Cancer campaign materials, explain that although lung cancer is more common in smokers, those who have never smoked can also get the disease, including details of the number of people diagnosed with lung cancer each year. The leaflet is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://campaignresources.phe.gov.uk/resources/campaigns/46/resources/1744" target="_blank">https://campaignresources.phe.gov.uk/resources/campaigns/46/resources/1744</a></p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy grouped question UIN 247983 question first answered 07/05/2019 16:45:40 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4663 label Biography information for Ben Bradley

1123362

registered interest
date	26/04/2019
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	Lung Cancer: Diagnosis
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to raise awareness of lung cancer diagnosis among non-smokers.
tabling member constituency	Preston
tabling member printed	Sir Mark Hendrick
uin	247983
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2019 answer text <p>Public Health England (PHE) continues to run awareness campaigns focused on the symptoms of lung cancer where the messaging is relevant to both smokers and non-smokers.</p><p>For example, the PHE Be Clear on Cancer ‘Respiratory Symptoms’ campaign encourages those with a persistent cough or inappropriate breathlessness to visit their doctor, with the aim of improving earlier diagnosis of heart and lung disease, including lung cancer. The campaign has run twice nationally, in 2016 and 2017. This campaign can be viewed at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.nhs.uk/be-clear-on-cancer" target="_blank">https://www.nhs.uk/be-clear-on-cancer</a></p><p>The precursor to this campaign centred on one main symptom, that of a persistent cough, as a possible symptom of lung cancer. This lung cancer campaign ran nationally three times, in 2012, 2013 and 2014.</p><p>The Be Clear on Cancer campaign materials, explain that although lung cancer is more common in smokers, those who have never smoked can also get the disease, including details of the number of people diagnosed with lung cancer each year. The leaflet is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://campaignresources.phe.gov.uk/resources/campaigns/46/resources/1744" target="_blank">https://campaignresources.phe.gov.uk/resources/campaigns/46/resources/1744</a></p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy grouped question UIN 248070 question first answered 07/05/2019 16:45:40 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	473 label Biography information for Sir Mark Hendrick

1123372

registered interest
date	26/04/2019
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	Vaccination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when his Department plans to respond to the consultation on the cost-effectiveness methodology for vaccination programmes.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	248007
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2019 answer text <p>Although we had hoped to publish the Government’s response to the report of the Committee on Cost Effectiveness Methodology for Immunisation Programmes and Procurement in April, alongside a summary of consultation responses, the Government’s response is still being considered, and a publication date is still to be decided.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 07/05/2019 16:41:59 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

1123373

registered interest
date	26/04/2019
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	Vaccination
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 he has made of trends in the level of vaccination in England.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	248008
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2019 answer text <p>Public Health England monitors trends in vaccine coverage levels and works with NHS England to increase vaccine uptake to offer the best possible protection against vaccine preventable diseases.</p><p> </p><p>Coverage for most routine universal childhood vaccination programmes is reported through the COVER (cover of vaccination Evaluated Rapidly) programme. Coverage data can be found at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/vaccine-uptake#cover-of-vaccination-evaluated-rapidly-programme" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/vaccine-uptake#cover-of-vaccination-evaluated-rapidly-programme</a></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 07/05/2019 16:41:06 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

1123374

registered interest
date	26/04/2019
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	Pneumococcal Diseases: Vaccination
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 he has made of the effect on public health of changing the dosing schedule for pneumococcal conjugate vaccine from three to two doses.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	248009
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2019 answer text <p>The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) advised that a two-dose schedule for the infant pneumococcal conjugate vaccine Prevenar13 is appropriate for the United Kingdom.</p><p>The JCVI’s advice was given full consideration, taking into account the potential public health implications, such as impact on cases of pneumococcal disease, before a decision was made to implement it. The decision is based on the effectiveness of the vaccine and years of high uptake, which has helped to provide protection to the rest of the population and has successfully controlled many types of pneumococcal disease in this country.</p><p>The evidence shows that two doses will sustain the excellent results we have already seen. We are confident that the world-class disease surveillance system we have in this country means our expert committee can closely monitor the impact of this change.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 07/05/2019 16:49:24 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

1123375

registered interest
date	26/04/2019
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	Antimicrobials: Drug Resistance
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the uptake of (a) new and (b) underused vaccines to tackle antimicrobial resistance.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	248010
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2019 answer text <p>‘Contained and controlled: The UK’s 20-year vision for antimicrobial resistance’ recognises the important role of vaccines in tackling antimicrobial resistance (AMR).</p><p>The United Kingdom supports the delivery and uptake of vaccines internationally through UK Aid programmes, including the Global AMR Innovation Fund, the UK Vaccine Network, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and the Global Vaccine Action Plan. Through these programmes UK Aid supports initiatives to ensure that all low and middle-income countries have introduced one or more new or underused vaccines by 2020.</p><p>In addition, our expert advisory committees are considering how vaccines can be better employed to support the control of AMR in the UK.</p><p>More generally, vaccinations are a key part of the prevention strategy in the NHS Long Term Plan. To help increase immunisation uptake, NHS England will undertake a fundamental review of general practitioner vaccinations and immunisation standards, funding and procurement. This will support the goal of preventing primary and secondary infections.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 07/05/2019 16:52:25 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

1123376

registered interest
date	26/04/2019
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	Cancer
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support local health leaders to address inequalities in the cancer pathway.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	248011
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2019 answer text <p>Cancer Alliances are leading local transformation of cancer services and outcomes to deliver the ambitions of the NHS Long Term Plan, which includes actions to reduce health inequalities and ensure every one with cancer can access screening, diagnosis and treatment services. To enable this, Cancer Alliances receive funding to deliver improvement projects, which is adjusted for health need and deprivation of the local population using the clinical commissioning group (CCG) weighted capitation formula.</p><p>Each Cancer Alliance is regularly provided with data for their Alliance, CCGs and trusts, as well as a comparison with the other Cancer Alliances and an England benchmark. The Cancer Alliance Data, Evidence and Analysis Service is also working with partners to produce inequality breakdowns of key cancer data for Cancer Alliances to use, such as data on smoking prevalence by deprivation quintiles at Cancer Alliance level. This data and analysis enables local system leaders to understand inequalities and target actions to reduce them.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 07/05/2019 16:37:21 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

1123378

registered interest
date	26/04/2019
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	Cancer
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 he has made of the adequacy of the time frame for improving cancer outcomes in the NHS Long Term Plan.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	248013
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2019 answer text <p>The National Health Service can deliver on the ambitions to improve cancer outcomes within England, set out within the NHS Long Term Plan, by rolling out the interventions set out in the Long Term Plan; reducing variation across the country; ensuring the right workforce is in place and is well supported; and harnessing and quickly adopting research and innovation. Delivery of these actions is underway.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 07/05/2019 16:46:48 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

1123379

registered interest
date	26/04/2019
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	Cancer: Social Security Benefits
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 discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions to ensure that the needs of cancer patients are addressed in the benefits system.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	248014
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2019 answer text <p>There are regular discussions with Cabinet ministers on a wide range of subjects but no specific discussions have taken place on the support for cancer patients within the benefits system.</p><p>As described in the NHS Long Term Plan, personalised care and support planning is being rolled out across the country, based upon the completion of holistic needs assessment and provision of ongoing support to self-manage their health and wellbeing. This will help ensure that the patient is signposted or referred to community support, including information on financial matters, such as benefits, and psychological support.</p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 07/05/2019 16:48:00 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper

1123381

registered interest
date	26/04/2019
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	Cancer: Health Professions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to address vacancy rates in the NHS cancer workforce.
tabling member constituency	West Lancashire
tabling member printed	Rosie Cooper
uin	248015
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/05/2019 answer text <p>Health Education England (HEE) published its Cancer Workforce Plan in December 2017. It was developed in partnership with NHS England and the Five Year Forward View partners and set out a delivery plan that ensures the National Health Service in England has the right numbers of skilled staff to provide high quality care and services to cancer patients at each stage in their care – from accurate early diagnosis and treatment to living with cancer and end of life care.</p><p>The recommendations from this plan include actions to ensure the NHS have enough staff with the right skills to deliver the funded activity set out in the Cancer Taskforce Strategy by 2021, and focuses on priority professions to do this.</p><p>HEE is currently piloting its international recruitment programme related to the Cancer Workforce Plan ambitions commencing with clinical radiologists, this will be used with the intention to recruit at least 89 diagnostic radiographers from overseas.</p><p>Over summer 2019, HEE will work with NHS England, NHS Improvement and other stakeholders, to understand the longer-term workforce implications for further development of cancer services. This will include exploring sustainable growth beyond 2021 in key professions including through continued investment in training places, a greater focus on attracting and retaining students, workforce transformation and improving the numbers of qualified professionals who go on to work in the NHS.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 07/05/2019 16:38:58 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	1538 label Biography information for Rosie Cooper