Breast Cancer

(asked on 18th April 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what proportion of NHS Trusts in England are recording data on the number of patients with secondary breast cancer.


Answered by
Seema Kennedy Portrait
Seema Kennedy
This question was answered on 30th April 2019

Information on the numbers of cancer patients that do not access emotional support services is not routinely collected.

The NHS Cancer Programme aims to improve access to cancer Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNS) for all cancer patients when they need it, including those with secondary breast cancer. The new NHS Long Term Plan commitment is that all patients, including those with secondary cancers, will have access to the right expertise and support, including a CNS or other support worker by 2021.

Following publication of the Long Term Plan, Health Education England is working with NHS England and NHS Improvement to understand the longer-term workforce implications for further development of cancer services. My Rt. hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care has commissioned Baroness Dido Harding to lead a number of programmes to engage with key National Health Service interests to develop a detailed workforce implementation plan. These programmes will consider detailed proposals to grow the workforce rapidly, including staff working on cancer, consider additional staff and skills required, build a supportive working culture in the NHS and ensure first rate leadership for NHS staff.

The latest published dataset on the number of patients with secondary breast cancer is for 2016. All 140 NHS trusts who were expected to submit data on the number of patients with secondary breast cancer did so.

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