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1660129

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date	12/09/2023
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	Breast 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 recent progress his Department has made on increasing rates of early diagnosis for breast cancer.
tabling member constituency	Halton
tabling member printed	Derek Twigg
uin	199028
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2023 answer text <p>Improving early diagnosis of cancer, including breast cancer, remains a priority. We are working towards the NHS Long Term Plan ambition of diagnosing 75% of stageable cancers at stage 1 and 2 by 2028. The latest published data shows this was 52% from January to December 2020. Achieving this will mean that, from 2028, 55,000 more people each year will survive their cancer for at least five years after diagnosis.</p><p>The Government has also expanded the Breast Screening programme, with an additional £10 million funding for 28 new breast screening units and nearly 60 life-saving upgrades to services in the areas where they are most needed.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 18/09/2023 09:23:54 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	429 label Biography information for Derek Twigg

1660130

registered interest
date	12/09/2023
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	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, whether he plans to take further steps to increase levels of uptake in the breast cancer screening programme.
tabling member constituency	Halton
tabling member printed	Derek Twigg
uin	199029
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2023 answer text <p>The Department has invested £10 million into the NHS Breast Screening Programme for 28 new breast screening units targeted at areas where they are needed most. This will provide extra capacity for services to recover from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, boost uptake of screening in areas where attendance is low, and tackle health disparities.</p><p>Further steps to remove barriers to attending breast screening include promoting the use of text message alerts to remind women of upcoming appointments. National Health Service breast screening providers are also being encouraged to work with their partners to bring together work to make sure as many people as possible can access breast screening services.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince grouped question UIN 199030 question first answered 18/09/2023 15:47:49 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	429 label Biography information for Derek Twigg

1660154

registered interest
date	12/09/2023
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	Podiatry: Health Services
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 his Department have made of the adequacy of resources for podiatric care in the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Slough
tabling member printed	Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi
uin	199110
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2023 answer text <p>No assessment has been made. Integrated care boards are responsible for ensuring that the services they commission meet the needs of their local population with the resources they are allocated, including in respect of podiatry services.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 18/09/2023 09:22:20 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4638 label Biography information for Mr Tanmanjeet Singh Dhesi

1660207

registered interest
date	12/09/2023
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	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, with reference to Question 353 of the oral evidence on Cancer services given by the Minister of State for Patient Safety and Primary Care to the Health and Social Care Committee on 20 January 2022, HC 551, what progress he has made on the development of national cancer hotlines to improve the rapid diagnosis of cancer.
tabling member constituency	Ilford North
tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
uin	199157
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2023 answer text <p>Self-referral models, including cancer hotlines, are currently being considered. The Cancer Programme at NHS England has funded several local pilots to understand the feasibility and impact of self-referral mechanisms in cancer pathways. These small-scale, local pilots are at different stages of development. NHS England are in the process of gathering and analysing the data from local systems to assess the effectiveness of these interventions.</p><p>The NHS Cancer Programme continues to scope opportunities to streamline cancer pathways to support earlier and faster diagnosis of cancer, including piloting direct referral routes from community pharmacies, increasing general practice direct access to diagnostic tests and expanding the roll-out of Community Diagnostic Centres.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 18/09/2023 09:20:31 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting

1659749

registered interest
date	11/09/2023
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	Genomics: Health Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of patient genomes have been sequenced by the Genomics Medicine Service as of 11 September 2023.
tabling member constituency	Ilford North
tabling member printed	Wes Streeting
uin	198889
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 18/09/2023 answer text <p>The NHS Genomic Medicine Service, in partnership with Genomics England, is the first clinical service in the world to offer whole genome sequencing as part of routine care for rare disease and cancer patients. As of September 2023, 66,266 whole genome equivalents (the number of whole genome sequences undertaken, including, and adjusting for the complexity of, cancer tumour sequences) have been sequenced through this service.</p> answering member constituency Colchester answering member printed Will Quince question first answered 18/09/2023 09:25:05 answering member 4423 label Biography information for Will Quince
tabling member	4504 label Biography information for Wes Streeting