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 ensure (a) GPs and (b) patients are aware of the (i) warning signs and (ii) symptoms of ovarian cancer.

In April 2020, NHS England introduced the early cancer diagnosis service specification for Primary Care Networks to review the quality of referrals. NHS England is also embedding clinical decision support tools for cancer within general practice and online and in-person cancer education programmes are available, include specific courses on ovarian cancer. The current ‘Help Us Help You’ campaign is raising awareness of abdominal and urological symptoms, which addresses symptoms of ovarian cancer.