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Mentions:
1: Mochan, Carol (Lab - South Scotland) Health visitor services are key to that. - Speech Link
2: Cole-Hamilton, Alex (LD - Edinburgh Western) We also know that it has a role to play in protecting mothers from ovarian cancer and breast cancer. - Speech Link
3: Harper, Emma (SNP - South Scotland) We have strong evidence that it reduces the risk of breast and ovarian cancer, and it is worth repeating - Speech Link
4: Marra, Michael (Lab - North East Scotland) and ovarian cancer for the mother. - Speech Link
5: Mackay, Rona (SNP - Strathkelvin and Bearsden) and ovarian cancer and some evidence that it may promote a healthy weight and reduce the risk of type - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Yousaf, Humza (SNP - Glasgow Pollok) services across the United Kingdom, including on cancer services. - Speech Link
2: Yousaf, Humza (SNP - Glasgow Pollok) We are taking the specific issue of ovarian cancer with the utmost seriousness.The Scottish cancer network - Speech Link
3: Yousaf, Humza (SNP - Glasgow Pollok) of cancer with our rapid cancer diagnostic services and, specifically on ovarian cancer, which is the - Speech Link
4: Yousaf, Humza (SNP - Glasgow Pollok) There have been significant increases not just in mental health services but, crucially, in mental health - Speech Link
Asked by: Gregory Campbell (Democratic Unionist Party - East Londonderry)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will launch an awareness campaign on abdominal and urological symptoms of ovarian cancer.
Answered by Will Quince
NHS England is currently running a ‘Help us Help you’ campaign highlighting the abdominal and urological symptoms of cancer, including ovarian cancer, and addressing the barriers that stop people from accessing services in the National Health Service.
It encourages the public to contact their general practitioner if they're worried about symptoms, such as “tummy discomfort or diarrhoea that lasts for three weeks or more, or if they've seen blood in their pee even once”.
Found: Cross -Party Group Annual Return Name of Cross -Party Group Cross -Party Group on Women’s Health
Jan. 09 2024
Source Page: Letter dated 27/12/2023 from Lord Markham to Baroness Hayter and other peers regarding the General Medical Council's internal guidance for pregnant and menopausal women. 2p.Found: also very important that trans men feel able to access and attend cervical screening or maternity services
Asked by: Judith Cummins (Labour - Bradford South)
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 help reduce the time taken to diagnose ovarian cancer.
Answered by Will Quince
Improving early diagnosis of cancer, including ovarian cancer, remains a priority. We are working towards the NHS Long Term Plan ambition of diagnosing 75% of stageable cancers at stage 1 and 2 by 2028. The latest published data shows this was 52% between January to December 2020. Achieving this will mean that, from 2028, 55,000 more people each year will survive their cancer for at least five years after diagnosis. The National Health Service is improving pathways to get people diagnosed faster once they are referred and is looking into alternative routes into the system, including non-specific symptom (NSS) pathways for patients who do not fit clearly into a single ‘urgent cancer’ referral pathway but who are at risk of being diagnosed with cancer. This will help support faster ovarian cancer diagnosis. 108 NSS pathways are currently operational, with more in development. By March 2024, the NSS programme will achieve full population coverage across England for non-specific symptom pathways as set out in the 2023/24 NHS Planning Guidance.
Reducing variation in cancer services is a strategic priority for the NHS Cancer Programme. The NHS Cancer Programme has commissioned five new cancer clinical audits, which will provide timely evidence for cancer service providers of where patterns of care in England may vary, increase the consistency of access to treatments and help stimulate improvements in cancer treatment and outcomes for patients. The Royal College of Surgeons began work on this audit in October last year with the first outcomes expected in 2023/24. This includes an audit on ovarian cancer.
To encourage people to get in touch with their general practitioner if they notice or are worried about symptoms that could be cancer, NHS England is running the ‘Help Us, Help You’ (HUHY) campaigns. This included multiple phases of the campaign that had a focus on abdominal symptoms which, among other abdominal cancers, can be indicative of ovarian cancer, most recently in November and December 2022. Alongside that phase of the campaign, NHS England funded a series of community engagement events coordinated by a cluster of gynaecological cancer charities, led by Target Ovarian Cancer.
The NHS plans to run further HUHY campaign activity through 2023/24.
Asked by: Judith Cummins (Labour - Bradford South)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to help increase awareness of the main symptoms of ovarian cancer.
Answered by Will Quince
Improving early diagnosis of cancer, including ovarian cancer, remains a priority. We are working towards the NHS Long Term Plan ambition of diagnosing 75% of stageable cancers at stage 1 and 2 by 2028. The latest published data shows this was 52% between January to December 2020. Achieving this will mean that, from 2028, 55,000 more people each year will survive their cancer for at least five years after diagnosis. The National Health Service is improving pathways to get people diagnosed faster once they are referred and is looking into alternative routes into the system, including non-specific symptom (NSS) pathways for patients who do not fit clearly into a single ‘urgent cancer’ referral pathway but who are at risk of being diagnosed with cancer. This will help support faster ovarian cancer diagnosis. 108 NSS pathways are currently operational, with more in development. By March 2024, the NSS programme will achieve full population coverage across England for non-specific symptom pathways as set out in the 2023/24 NHS Planning Guidance.
Reducing variation in cancer services is a strategic priority for the NHS Cancer Programme. The NHS Cancer Programme has commissioned five new cancer clinical audits, which will provide timely evidence for cancer service providers of where patterns of care in England may vary, increase the consistency of access to treatments and help stimulate improvements in cancer treatment and outcomes for patients. The Royal College of Surgeons began work on this audit in October last year with the first outcomes expected in 2023/24. This includes an audit on ovarian cancer.
To encourage people to get in touch with their general practitioner if they notice or are worried about symptoms that could be cancer, NHS England is running the ‘Help Us, Help You’ (HUHY) campaigns. This included multiple phases of the campaign that had a focus on abdominal symptoms which, among other abdominal cancers, can be indicative of ovarian cancer, most recently in November and December 2022. Alongside that phase of the campaign, NHS England funded a series of community engagement events coordinated by a cluster of gynaecological cancer charities, led by Target Ovarian Cancer.
The NHS plans to run further HUHY campaign activity through 2023/24.
Mentions:
1: Alec Shelbrooke (Con - Elmet and Rothwell) Compared with the general public, sufferers have: a 37% higher chance of developing ovarian cancer; a - Speech Link
2: Alec Shelbrooke (Con - Elmet and Rothwell) Key stages 3 to 4 include lessons on breast cancer, in collaboration with breast cancer charity CoppaFeel - Speech Link
3: Damian Hinds (Con - East Hampshire) We are investing £25 million to establish women’s health hubs, which will improve access to services - Speech Link