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1691634

	registered interest
	date	26/02/2024
	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	Health Services: Postal Services
	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 make an assessment of the cost to the NHS caused by Royal Mail (a) delays and (b) failures to deliver appointment letters.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	15620
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/02/2024 answer text <p>NHS England sends communications and invitations to patients using a digital first approach, for environmental reasons and to efficiently reduce costs. If an individual has provided a mobile phone number and email address through their general practice, NHS England will, in the first instance, send most invitations for appointments via mobile phone text and email.</p><p>Letters are typically sent to patients when NHS England does not have alternative contact details on record, such as a phone number or email address. This ensures all patients receive notification of an appointment, including elderly and other vulnerable patients, where a digital first approach may not be possible or appropriate. Letters may also be sent occasionally as reminders.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 29/02/2024 11:13:05 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1684763

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2024
	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	Public Health: Finance
	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 NHS public health functions agreement 2023 to 2024 will include a ring-fence in financial directions.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	11309
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2024 answer text <p>My Rt hon. Friend, the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care’s financial directions to NHS England in respect of the financial year ending on 31 March 2024, do not include a ring-fence for services covered by the annual NHS public health functions agreement. The Government does not intend to set such a ring-fence for the remainder of this period.</p> answering member constituency South Northamptonshire answering member printed Andrea Leadsom question first answered 29/01/2024 13:15:02 answering member 4117 label Biography information for Andrea Leadsom
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1684764

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2024
	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	Public Health: Finance
	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 her Department has made of the impact of the removal of NHS public health functions agreement ring-fence funding on cancer screening programmes.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	11310
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2024 answer text <p>The Government does not believe that, since 2020/21, removal of a ring-fence in respect of NHS England’s funding for services covered by the annual NHS Public Health Functions Agreement has had any specific impact on delivery of the relevant programmes including cancer screening programmes.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England is committed to delivering maximum levels of screening uptake and coverage across the whole population, both within and between communities. A range of initiatives are underway within individual programmes to, as appropriate, expand eligibility and trial innovative technologies as well as to improve the underpinning service delivery, including alignment with symptomatic services and digital infrastructure.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 30/01/2024 16:41:51 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1684765

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2024
	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	Breast 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, whether her Department plans to launch a national awareness campaign on breast screening.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	11311
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2024 answer text <p>The Department is currently exploring opportunities for national campaigns to support positive outcomes on women’s health. Work is underway to scope the feasibility of running a national campaign to support breast screening uptake, and this will be informed by pilot activity due to run in London in 2024/25.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 01/02/2024 10:32:13 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1684503

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2024
	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	Prostate 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 her Department is taking to steps to use (a) screening and (b) enhanced testing to increase early diagnosis rates for prostate cancer.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	11061
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2024 answer text <p>The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) does not currently recommend screening for prostate cancer as the current test, the Prostate Specific Antigen test, does not meet the required accuracy for use in a national screening programme. Current methods offer insufficient benefit in relation to harms caused by overdiagnosis, which could result in invasive investigative procedures and unnecessary treatment, to warrant roll out as an organised screening programme. The UK NSC is due to review prostate cancer again in 2024 and will consider new evidence published between the two reviews.</p><p>In November 2023 we announced that we will be funding a £42 million screening trial with Prostate Cancer UK, to find ways of detecting country’s most common male cancer earlier. The first-of-its-kind trial called TRANSFORM will use innovative screening methods like magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanning to detect prostate cancer, and it will see hundreds of thousands of men across the country participating.</p><p>Steps have been taken to use enhanced testing to increase early diagnosis rates for prostate cancer; NHS England have streamlined cancer pathways, including implementing a best timed prostate cancer diagnostic pathway so that those suspected of prostate cancer receive a multi-parametric MRI scan first, which ensures only those men most at-risk undergo an invasive biopsy. Furthermore, to boost early diagnosis NHS England is supporting three pilots, including the Man Van as part of the COVID-19 catch up cancer initiative. The Man Van was launched in March 2022 to provide free health checks for men and boost early diagnosis of prostate cancer.</p><p>In addition, backed by £2.3 billion capital funding, the Department is expanding diagnostic capacity across the National Health Service by rolling out more community diagnostic centres (CDCs), delivering vital tests, scans and checks. With 150 CDCs open already and up to 160 set to open by March 2025, these offer millions of patients the chance to access quicker, more convenient checks outside of hospitals, with capacity prioritised for cancer. This is contributing to the elective recovery delivery plan ambition for 75% of patients urgently referred by their general practice for suspected cancer, to receive a diagnosis or have cancer ruled out within 28 days.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 26/01/2024 09:57:38 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1684528

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2024
	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	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, with reference to the Answer of 29 November 2022 to Question 94900 on Breast Cancer: Screening, what progress has been made on a new breast screening IT system.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	11062
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2024 answer text <p>Work on the Digital Transformation of Screening (DToS) programme is ongoing. When introduced, it will start to give breast screening offices across the country a single consolidated England-wide view of participants and improvements to appointment booking, which will allow the option for online booking and self-serve appointment. These changes to data monitoring and appointments will be delivered incrementally over the next 24 months, subject to funding. Longer term, the current breast screening IT system will be completely replaced by the DToS.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 26/01/2024 09:54:58 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1684531

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2024
	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 and Public Health
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, which Minister in her Department is responsible for delivery of (a) cancer screening programmes and (b) the NHS public health Section 7A agreement.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	11063
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 30/01/2024 answer text <p>My role as the Minister of State for Health and Secondary Care includes responsibility for major diseases including cancer, and for screening.</p><p>In accordance with the NHS Public Health Functions Agreement (made under section 7A of the NHS Act 2006) NHS England is responsible for providing or securing the provision of breast, bowel and cervical screening programmes and other specified public health services.</p><p>My Rt. Hon friend, Andrea Leadsom MP, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Public Health, Start for Life and Primary Care, has led ministerial responsibility for arrangements under section 7A.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 30/01/2024 16:23:27 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1684532

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2024
	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	National Cancer Screening Programmes in England Review
	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 steps she has taken to implement the recommendations of Sir Mike Richards' report entitled the Independent review of adult screening programmes in England, published in October 2019.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	11064
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2024 answer text <p>The Department, NHS England and formerly Public Health England, took forward a number of workstreams to address the recommendations made by Prof Sir Mike Richards as part of the review of adult screening programmes.</p><p> </p><p>A number of these workstreams have already been completed, including since June 2022, the expanded remit of the UK National Screening Committee to review targeted and stratified screening alongside population screening programmes and guidance published in 2020 on tackling equalities.</p><p> </p><p>We continue to work with NHS England to improve uptake of screening programmes, including through data sharing, research, and via the Digital Transformation of Screening programme. This programme is designing and implementing future-proof digital systems that will allow programmes to become more responsive for service users and providers.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 26/01/2024 09:55:14 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1684533

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2024
	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	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, with reference to the Answer of 15 September 2023 to Question 198696 on Breast Cancer: Screening, what national evaluative projects have been commissioned; and what are the timelines for their delivery.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	11065
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/01/2024 answer text <p>NHS England has commissioned a series of evaluative projects to improve the NHS Breast Screening Programme. These include actively following up women who have missed an appointment or not engaged with the service; looking at the reasons why women do not attend screening to address any barriers; and assessing the impact on screening uptake using different invitation methodologies with reference to factors such as age, previous screening history including attendance at first invitations and subsequent invites, and deprivation.</p><p>These projects are expected to report by April 2024.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 26/01/2024 09:54:39 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris

1684534

	registered interest
	date	23/01/2024
	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: Screening
	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 Answer of 30 June 2023 to Question 190710 on Cancer: Screening, if she will publish (a) the NHS breast cancer screening uptake improvement plan and (b) an update on the (i) pilot and (ii) testing conducted.
	tabling member constituency	Easington
	tabling member printed	Grahame Morris
	uin	11066
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2024 answer text <p>NHS England has developed an internal national plan in collaboration with key stakeholders, to improve uptake within the breast screening programme from 2023 and beyond. There is currently no intention to publish the plan, but it is available on the NHS Futures Platform. This is a collaboration platform that empowers everyone working in health and social care to safely connect, share, and learn across boundaries.</p><p> </p><p>NHS England has commissioned a series of evaluative projects as part of its internal national improvement plan for breast screening, which includes: actively following up with women who have missed an appointment or not engaged with the service; looking at the reasons why women do not attend screenings to address any barriers; and assessing the impact on screening uptake of using different invitation methodologies with reference to factors such as age, previous screening history, attendance at first invitation and subsequent invites, and deprivation. These projects are expected to report their findings by April 2024.</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 29/01/2024 15:50:51 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	3973 label Biography information for Grahame Morris