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1716576

registered interest
date	08/05/2024
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	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 her Department is taking to increase the proportion of people who are provided a cancer diagnosis within 28 days of their referral for testing.
tabling member constituency	Liverpool, West Derby
tabling member printed	Ian Byrne
uin	25389
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/05/2024 answer text <p>The Department is taking steps to reduce cancer diagnosis and treatment waiting times across England, including the time between an urgent general practice referral and the commencement of treatment for cancer for patients. The Government is working jointly with NHS England on implementing the delivery plan for tackling the COVID-19 backlogs in elective care, and plans to spend more than £8 billion from 2022/23 to 2024/25 to help drive up and protect elective activity, including cancer diagnosis and treatment activity. Additionally, as outlined in the 2024/25 NHS England Planning Guidance, NHS England is providing over £266 million in cancer service development funding to Cancer Alliances, to support delivery of the operational priorities for cancer.</p><p>To help achieve the cancer waiting times standards, NHS England is streamlining cancer pathways. This includes implementing non-symptom specific pathways for patients who present with non-specific symptoms, as well as timed cancer pathways focused on the most challenged pathways, such as lower gastrointestinal and skin cancer. The pathways aim to support improvements in operational performance and patient experience, as well as providing models to support sustainable improvement.</p><p>Furthermore, to improve cancer treatment we are maximising the pace of the roll-out of additional diagnostic capacity. We are currently delivering the second year of the three-year investment plan for establishing community diagnostic centres (CDCs). We are ensuring timely implementation of new CDC locations and upgrades to existing CDCs, with capacity prioritised for cancer diagnostics. As of April 2024, 160 CDCs are operational, and have delivered almost 8 million tests, checks, and scans since July 2021. Additionally, we are supporting advances in radiotherapy. Since 2016, we’ve invested £162 million into cutting-edge radiotherapy equipment to replace or upgrade over 100 radiotherapy treatment machines.</p><p>We are committed to delivering the best possible outcomes for patients, and our approach is seeing success. Almost 344,000 people received their first cancer treatment in the 12 months to March 2024. Further, 2023/24 is the best year so far for the Faster Diagnosis Standard (FDS), with the latest performance data showing that NHS England hit the FDS target for the second month in a row at 77.3%, above the standard of 75%. We have also reduced the 62 day or over cancer referral to treatment backlog, to pre-pandemic levels.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson grouped question UIN 25387 25388 question first answered 14/05/2024 16:43:49 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4831 label Biography information for Ian Byrne

1693336

registered interest
date	04/03/2024
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	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 she has taken to work with (a) the NHS and (b) other stakeholders to increase earlier cancer diagnoses.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	16646
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/03/2024 answer text <p>Improving early diagnosis of cancer remains a priority for NHS England and the Government. NHS England is working towards the NHS Long Term Plan’s ambition of diagnosing 75% of stageable cancers at stage one and two by 2028. The latest published data shows this was 54% between January to December 2021. Achieving this ambition will mean that, from 2028, 55,000 more people each year will survive their cancer for at least five years after diagnosis.  Ministers and officials from the Department regularly meet with NHS England and other stakeholders, to discuss progress towards the ambition.</p><p>NHS England’s comprehensive Early Diagnosis strategy is based on six core strands of activity, from raising awareness of cancer symptoms and encouraging people to come forward, to implementing targeted interventions for particular cancer types that we know have previously experienced later stages of diagnosis.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 08/03/2024 14:36:28 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1689899

registered interest
date	19/02/2024
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	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 is she taking to help ensure that 75% of stageable cancers are diagnosed at stages 1 and 2.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	14626
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2024 answer text <p>Improving early diagnosis of cancer remains a priority for the Government. We are working towards the NHS Long Term Plan’s ambition of diagnosing 75% of stageable cancers at stage one and two, by 2028.</p><p>NHS England’s comprehensive Early Diagnosis strategy is based on six core strands of activity, from raising awareness of cancer symptoms and encouraging people to come forward, to implementing targeted interventions for particular cancer types that we know have previously experienced later stages of diagnosis.</p><p>To support this, NHS England introduced the Faster Diagnosis Standard (FDS) which sets a maximum target of a 28 day wait from urgent suspected general practitioner or screening referral to patients being told they have, or do not have, cancer. The FDS also intends to reduce unwarranted variation in England by understanding how long it is taking people to receive a diagnosis or all clear for cancer.</p><p>In order to find and diagnose cancers earlier, NHS England is streamlining cancer pathways to support diagnosis within 28 days by implementing non-symptom specific pathways for patients who present with non-specific symptoms that can indicate several cancers, as well as implementing timed cancer pathways.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 27/02/2024 11:20:50 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1670388

registered interest
date	15/11/2023
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, if she will take steps to ensure non-stageable cancers are included in the NHS early diagnosis target.
tabling member constituency	North East Hampshire
tabling member printed	Mr Ranil Jayawardena
uin	2191
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2023 answer text <p>The NHS Long Term Plan set an ambition that, by 2028, the proportion of cancers diagnosed at stages 1 and 2 will rise from around half now to three-quarters of cancer patients. Achieving this will mean that, from 2028, 55,000 more people each year will survive their cancer for at least five years after diagnosis. Due to the nature of the ambition, this only includes stageable cancers.</p><p>To find and diagnosed all cancers earlier, NHS England is streamlining cancer pathways to support diagnosis within 28 days by implementing non-symptom specific (NSS) pathways for patients who present with non-specific symptoms that can indicate several cancers, as well as implementing timed cancer pathways.</p><p>Since 2019, cancer alliances have been developing new dedicated urgent diagnostic pathways for these patients so that every cancer patient with concerning, but non-specific symptoms, gets the right tests at the right time in as few visits as possible. By March 2024, the NSS programme will achieve full population coverage across England for non-specific symptom pathways as set out in the 2023/24 NHS Planning Guidance.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 22/11/2023 11:10:53 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4498 label Biography information for Mr Ranil Jayawardena

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

1646500

registered interest
date	21/06/2023
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, if the Major Conditions Strategy will maintain the aim of raising the diagnostic rate from 50 to 75 per cent for grades 1 and 2 cancers.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	190725
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 03/07/2023 answer text <p>The Government and NHS England remain committed to the Long-Term Plan cancer ambitions of diagnosing 75% of cancers at stage 1 and 2 by 2028. Achieving this will mean that, from 2028, 55,000 more people each year will survive their cancer for at least five years after diagnosis. The latest published data shows this was at 52% between January 2020 to December 2020.</p><p>The Major Conditions Strategy will look at treatment and prevention of cancer, covering the patient pathway. The strategy will consider a wide range of interventions and enablers to improve outcomes and experience for cancer patients.</p><p>This Strategy will draw on previous work on cancer, including over 5,000 submissions provided to the Department as part of our Call for Evidence last year. The summary of responses to the Call for Evidence was published on 17 May.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately grouped question UIN 190723 question first answered 03/07/2023 13:26:50 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1642036

registered interest
date	25/05/2023
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, what steps he is taking to increase the early diagnosis of cancer.
tabling member constituency	Basildon and Billericay
tabling member printed	Mr John Baron
uin	905222
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 06/06/2023 answer text <p>The earlier we diagnose cancer, the better the outcomes for patients.</p><p>That’s why we’re speeding up diagnosis of the most common cancers e.g., skin cancer with tele-dermatology, bowel cancer through Faecal Immunochemical Testing, and prostate cancer through multiparametric MRI; increasing targeted screening for breast cancer and lung cancer; investing in 160 new community diagnostic centres; and tackling variation in cancer waiting times around the country.</p><p>Thanks to the hard work of so many people in cancer services around the country, the NHS hit the ‘faster diagnosis standard’ for the first time in February.</p><p>And – looking ahead - we’re investing in innovations like the Galleri blood test which may be able to detect cancer before people even have symptoms.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 06/06/2023 16:46:02 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	1390 label Biography information for Mr John Baron

1625958

registered interest
date	05/05/2023
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, what assessment he has made of the efficacy of the ambition of 75 per cent of cancer patients to be diagnosed at stage I or II by 2028 as set out in the NHS Long Term Plan.
tabling member constituency	Enfield North
tabling member printed	Feryal Clark
uin	183977
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/05/2023 answer text <p>The Government and NHS England remain committed to the Long-Term Plan ambition of diagnosing 75% of cancers at stage 1 and 2 by 2028. The latest published data shows this was at 52% between January 2020 to December 2020.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 15/05/2023 15:50:14 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4822 label Biography information for Feryal Clark

1625123

registered interest
date	02/05/2023
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 the oral evidence given by Dame Cally Palmer to the Health and Social Care Committee on 7 March 2023, Question 86, whether he plans to publish the acceleration plan on diagnostic capacity for cancer.
tabling member constituency	York Central
tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
uin	183481
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 10/05/2023 answer text <p>The Department has no plans to publish an acceleration plan on diagnostic capacity for cancer. We are working together with NHS England to increase diagnostic capacity as quickly as possible to ensure we meet our ambitious elective recovery targets. This includes work underway to rollout an increased number of Community Diagnostic Centres and other diagnostic interventions at pace.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately question first answered 10/05/2023 12:26:28 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1604547

registered interest
date	15/03/2023
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, whether he plans to include a strategy for increasing the rate of cancer diagnosis in the Major Conditions Strategy.
tabling member constituency	Chatham and Aylesford
tabling member printed	Tracey Crouch
uin	166183
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/03/2023 answer text <p>The Major Conditions Strategy will look at the treatment and prevention of cancer, covering the patient pathway. It will look at a wide range of interventions and enablers to improve outcomes for cancer patients.</p><p>The strategy will support health and care services to diagnose individuals earlier and help them to manage their conditions better. The strategy will include a focus on multi-morbidity and improve the National Health Service’s co-ordination of the treatment and care of people with multiple major conditions.</p><p>We will look at the health of people at all stages of life, from prevention through to living well with one or more major conditions. We will also include a focus on geographical and other differences in health that contribute to variations in health outcomes.</p> answering member constituency Faversham and Mid Kent answering member printed Helen Whately grouped question UIN 166182 166184 question first answered 23/03/2023 11:45:20 answering member 4527 label Biography information for Helen Whately
tabling member	3950 label Biography information for Dame Tracey Crouch