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155490

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date	11/11/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Cancer
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will produce a new national cancer plan for the next Parliament which prioritises the importance of early diagnosis.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	214186
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/11/2014 answer text <p>Achieving earlier diagnosis of cancer is key to our ambition to save an additional 5,000 lives per year by 2014-15 and improve cancer outcomes and survival.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><em>Improving Outcomes: A Strategy for Cancer,</em> (January 2011) set out the Government’s ambition to close the gap in survival outcomes by 2014-15 and the strategy is backed with more than £750 million over this spending review period (four years), including more than £450 million to achieve early diagnosis.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Along with NHS England and Public Health England, we will publish the latest progress on commitments and initiatives outlined in the plan in the fourth annual report.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 21/11/2014 14:34:42 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

143395

registered interest
date	07/11/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Meningitis: Vaccination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what timescale his Department has set for rolling out the meningococcal group B vaccine Bexsero to all babies as part of the national immunisation programme.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	213865
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2014 answer text <p>The Department is continuing negotiations for the supply of the meningococcal B vaccine Bexsero<sup>®</sup> with the manufacturer Novartis with a view to securing a cost-effective price as recommended by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Plans for inclusion of the Bexsero<sup>®</sup> in the routine infant immunisation programme will depend on the outcome of these negotiations, which will be completed as quickly as practicable.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 19/11/2014 16:08:45 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

143396

registered interest
date	07/11/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Meningitis: Vaccination
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if his Department will commission a carriage study into whether the meningococcal group B vaccine Bexsero should be extended and administered to adolescents and students.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	213866
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/11/2014 answer text <p>Work is under way by Departmental officials to explore a possible acquisition of a carriage study, as suggested by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 19/11/2014 16:16:44 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson

100023

registered interest
date	15/10/2014
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Ovarian Cancer
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to increase early identification of ovarian cancer.
tabling member constituency	Washington and Sunderland West
tabling member printed	Mrs Sharon Hodgson
uin	905561
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/10/2014 answer text <p>We are investing £450 million in earlier diagnosis of cancer, including improving direct general practitioner access to non-obstetric ultrasound to support earlier diagnosis of ovarian cancer.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Public Health England ran a regional Be Clear on Cancer campaign early in 2014 to raise awareness of the symptoms of ovarian cancer. The findings of the pilot will be evaluated in 2015, and this evidence would inform any decision to move from a regional to national campaign.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 21/10/2014 15:46:38 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	1521 label Biography information for Mrs Sharon Hodgson