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1050100

registered interest
date	28/01/2019
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	Blood Cancer
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 29 March 2018 to Question 134294 on Haematological Cancer, when he plans for the evaluation of the rapid diagnostic centres to be published; and he plans for that evaluation to inform the national roll-out of the centres as proposed in the NHS Long-Term Plan.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	213321
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/02/2019 answer text <p>Ten multi-disciplinary diagnostic centres are being piloted through the Accelerate, Co-ordinate, Evaluate (ACE) partnership between Cancer Research UK, Macmillan Cancer Support and NHS England. This pilot programme will end in March 2019. Early findings from those sites informed the plans for roll out of the Rapid Diagnostic Centres as part of the NHS Long Term Plan.</p><p> </p><p>During 2019/20, the ACE Programme will share further evaluation from the pilot centres. The findings will continue to inform plans for expansion of the Rapid Diagnostic Centres, alongside work being led by Cancer Alliances to improve early diagnosis.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 05/02/2019 15:31:33 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

987817

registered interest
date	15/10/2018
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	Blood Cancer
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the initiatives announced by the Prime Minister on 3 October 2018 on early detection rates for cancer include blood cancer; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	179183
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/10/2018 answer text <p>NHS England is completely clear that the new 75% early diagnosis ambition announced by the Prime Minister covers all cancers, and not just the 10 currently included in the Public Health Outcomes Framework (PHOF) early diagnosis metric. NHS England is keen to work with the voluntary sector organisations and charities representing some of the other cancers not currently included in the PHOF metric on how we best measure progress towards the ambition moving forwards.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 23/10/2018 16:57:18 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

896505

registered interest
date	02/05/2018
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	Blood 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 plans his Department has to ensure people with blood cancer are diagnosed as soon as possible.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	140696
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2018 answer text <p>Early diagnosis of blood cancers is difficult as symptoms, such as tiredness or back pain, are often misdiagnosed. For suspected blood cancers, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence published a revised guideline in 2015 which clearly sets out that general practitioners should consider a very urgent full blood count within 48 hours to assess for leukaemia if adults present with suspicious symptoms.</p><p> </p><p>In December 2016 NHS England announced transformation funding of £200 million for Cancer Alliances to encourage new and innovative ways to diagnose cancer earlier, improve the care for those living with cancer and ensure that each cancer patient gets the right care for them.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally, the Accelerate, Coordinate and Evaluate Programme is a unique early diagnosis initiative, a programme of 60 projects exploring innovative concepts of diagnosing cancer earlier across England. The programme is testing a new multi-disciplinary diagnostic centre approach to diagnosing patients with vague or unclear but concerning symptoms, often characteristic of hard to diagnose cancers like blood cancers.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 14/05/2018 11:23:24 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

896508

registered interest
date	02/05/2018
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	Blood 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 he is taking to ensure that the cancer recovery package meets the needs of people with blood cancer.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	140698
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2018 answer text <p>The Recovery Package is designed to help patients and clinicians assess a patient’s holistic needs and plan appropriately for their care and support. It includes a Holistic Needs Assessment (HNA) and Care Plan. This guides a conversation about the person’s holistic needs (physical, psychosocial, financial and social) in order to identify any concerns. An HNA should take place within 31 days of diagnosis and at the end of each acute phase of treatment and the Care Plan updated each time. The Recovery Package is being commissioned and delivered in full or in part by many clinical commissioning groups and providers across England. Our aim now is to accelerate the process, to ensure full implementation by 2020 - available to all cancer patients.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 140697 140700 question first answered 14/05/2018 11:25:00 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

896509

registered interest
date	02/05/2018
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	Blood 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 plans his Department has to widen the cancer dashboard to include blood cancer.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	140699
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2018 answer text <p>Public Health England and NHS England developed the first iteration of the cancer dashboard in response to recommendations in the Independent Cancer Taskforce report ‘Achieving world-class cancer outcomes: a strategy for England 2015-2020’. This includes data on breast, colorectal, lung and prostate cancers. Further cancer sites, including blood cancer, were not included because of the risk of making patients identifiable when viewing data for individual hospitals or clinical commissioning groups.</p><p> </p><p>A second iteration of the dashboard is being considered by the National Cancer Transformation Board with a wider ambition to include rarer cancers and cancers with a lower incidence, such a blood cancers, as the dashboard develops.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 14/05/2018 11:28:20 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

896511

registered interest
date	02/05/2018
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	Blood 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 support his Department provides to people diagnosed with blood cancer.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	140700
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2018 answer text <p>The Recovery Package is designed to help patients and clinicians assess a patient’s holistic needs and plan appropriately for their care and support. It includes a Holistic Needs Assessment (HNA) and Care Plan. This guides a conversation about the person’s holistic needs (physical, psychosocial, financial and social) in order to identify any concerns. An HNA should take place within 31 days of diagnosis and at the end of each acute phase of treatment and the Care Plan updated each time. The Recovery Package is being commissioned and delivered in full or in part by many clinical commissioning groups and providers across England. Our aim now is to accelerate the process, to ensure full implementation by 2020 - available to all cancer patients.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine grouped question UIN 140697 140698 question first answered 14/05/2018 11:25:00 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

896513

registered interest
date	02/05/2018
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	Blood 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 funding for providing new treatments for blood cancer.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	140701
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2018 answer text <p>In England there is a well-established framework for enabling access to cost effective new cancer medicines. All new licensed cancer medicines are referred to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) for inclusion within the Technology Appraisal Programme. This referral is irrespective of the clinical indication concerned. Where cancer medicines are approved by NICE for use in England, NHS England makes these available immediately. NICE now also has the ability to refer licensed medicines demonstrating promising, but not yet certain, benefits for inclusion within the Cancer Drugs Fund.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 14/05/2018 15:37:08 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

872380

registered interest
date	26/03/2018
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	Blood Cancer
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 19 March 2018 to Question 132100, on Haematological Cancer, whether he or NHS England plan to publish information on the work of multidisciplinary diagnostic centres before December 2018.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	134294
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/03/2018 answer text <p>The 10 multidisciplinary diagnostic centres or ‘rapid assessment and diagnostic centres’ have been described in the Progress Report on the cancer strategy published by NHS England in October 2017 at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/national-cancer-transformation-programme-2016-17-progress.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.england.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/national-cancer-transformation-programme-2016-17-progress.pdf</a></p><p> </p><p>The evaluation of the centres is being undertaken by the Accelerate, Co-ordinate, Evaluate Partnership, which will publish its final report in December 2018.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 29/03/2018 13:55:02 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

860743

registered interest
date	12/03/2018
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	Blood 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 proportion of patients referred to a multidisciplinary diagnostic centre have been (a) suspected of having blood cancer and (b) diagnosed with blood cancer; and if he will make a statement.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	132100
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/03/2018 answer text <p>An evaluation is currently being prepared on the work of the multi-disciplinary diagnostic centres, which will include further information on blood cancer patient referral and diagnosis numbers. A final report will be published in December 2018.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 19/03/2018 15:32:36 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith

837754

registered interest
date	06/02/2018
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	Blood Cancer
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the most recent results of the National Cancer Patient Experience Survey, what steps (a) his Department and (b) NHS England are taking to improve the training for healthcare professionals to ensure that people with blood cancer understand their diagnosis.
tabling member constituency	Crawley
tabling member printed	Henry Smith
uin	126785
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/02/2018 answer text <p>Health Education England, alongside NHS England, has recently published the Cancer Workforce plan, which sets out the steps to transform the cancer workforce in line with the independent cancer taskforce recommendations. This will aim to improve patient outcomes and deliver a better patient experience across all tumour types, including haematological cancers. The report sets out the plan for improving the training of healthcare professionals, as well as recruitment and retention plans. The report can be found at:</p><p><a href="https://www.hee.nhs.uk/news-blogs-events/hee-news/health-education-england-unveils-plan-transform-future-nhs-cancer-workforce" target="_blank">https://www.hee.nhs.uk/news-blogs-events/hee-news/health-education-england-unveils-plan-transform-future-nhs-cancer-workforce</a></p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 08/02/2018 15:29:34 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	3960 label Biography information for Henry Smith