Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has taken recent steps to help increase awareness amongst GPs of cancer symptoms in patients aged between 18 and 50.

In April 2020, NHS England introduced the ‘Network Contract Directed Enhanced Service – Early Cancer Diagnosis Guidance’ for Primary Care Networks, which 99% of general practitioners practices are signed up to. This is designed to support improvements in rates of early cancer diagnosis by requiring Primary Care Networks to review the quality of their practices’ referrals for suspected cancer and take steps to improve this.