Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the provision of specialised nursing care for people with secondary breast cancer in Coventry.

Coventry and Rugby Clinical Commissioning Group is not aware of any specific pressures on nursing services for breast cancer patients in the area.

In December 2017, Health Education England (HEE) published its first Cancer Workforce Plan. The plan outlines HEE’s commitment to support the expansion of Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNS) so that every patient has access to a CNS or other support worker by 2021.