Oral Cancer
(asked on 20th November 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what action they are taking to promote a greater awareness of oral cancer.
This question was answered on 29th November 2017
Public Health England (PHE) publishes national datasets that identify local needs in terms of oral cancer registrations and mortality, and local profiles on alcohol and tobacco which are the major risk factors for oral cancer. This information is used to raise local awareness and support local needs assessments. PHE has also published Delivering Better Oral Health: an evidence-based toolkit for prevention, which provides dental teams with evidence-based advice and training resources that will help them to raise their patients’ awareness of the common risk factors of oral cancer. A copy of the toolkit is attached.
Public Health England (PHE) publishes national datasets that identify local needs in terms of oral cancer registrations and mortality, and local profiles on alcohol and tobacco which are the major risk factors for oral cancer. This information is used to raise local awareness and support local needs assessments. PHE has also published Delivering Better Oral Health: an evidence-based toolkit for prevention, which provides dental teams with evidence-based advice and training resources that will help them to raise their patients’ awareness of the common risk factors of oral cancer. A copy of the toolkit is attached.
During 2017-19, a national Commissioning for Quality and Innovation (CQUIN) incentive scheme will require all mental health and community trusts and, in 2018-19 acute trusts, to deliver alcohol and smoking brief interventions to all adult inpatients. Patient information materials provided to support the CQUIN outline the increased risk of oral cancers from alcohol misuse.