Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to raise awareness of services to check people for skin cancer.

The Be Clear on Cancer campaigns are designed to raise the public’s awareness of specific cancer symptoms, encourage people with those symptoms to go to the doctor and diagnose cancer at an earlier stage. Public Health England ran a Be Clear on Cancer Skin Cancer campaign in Devon, Cornwall and Somerset in 2014. The Be Clear on Cancer Skin Cancer materials are freely available online via the Campaign Resource Centre at:

https://campaignresources.phe.gov.uk/resources

The decision on which cancers should be the focus of Be Clear on Cancer campaigns is informed by a steering group, whose members include primary and secondary care clinicians, and key voluntary sector organisations. This is under constant review, informed by the available data and medical information resources.