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date	31/01/2022
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: Greater London
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 reduce the breast cancer care backlog in London.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	114852
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/04/2022 answer text <p>In London, the national ‘Help us to Help You’ campaigns have been promoted and included local initiatives, which has increased number of referrals. Mutual aid is being provided between providers in London, initially within local clinical commissioning group area and with other London providers where this is not available. This allows faster access to first outpatient appointments with clinical assessment where waiting times are shorter.</p><p>Due to the nature of treatments for breast cancer where surgery is often a day case, this pathway has continued more consistently. Those on breast cancer pathways waiting longer than 62 days currently represent approximately 10% of all pathways and continues to decrease.</p><p>Levels of first treatments remain high, with 130 more breast cancers treated through the urgent general practitioner route compared to pre-pandemic levels and we anticipate that some patients will have been referred via screening.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 12/04/2022 12:05:16 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield previous answer version 48832 answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West

1418318

registered interest
date	31/01/2022
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: Surgery
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 has taken to ensure that funding allocated to tackle the backlog of elective cases addresses people who are awaiting delayed breast reconstruction.
tabling member constituency	Hornsey and Wood Green
tabling member printed	Catherine West
uin	114853
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/03/2022 answer text In July 2021, the National Health Service announced a further £20 million for Cancer Alliances to accelerate cancer diagnoses and enable management of high referral volumes. Cancer Alliances have been asked to ensure that wherever possible reconstructive surgery takes place, in particular for women who have undergone breast surgery previously during the pandemic. answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 07/03/2022 16:10:17 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield previous answer version 48833 answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4523 label Biography information for Catherine West