Mentions:
1: Peter Dowd (Lab - Bootle) It says:“Research has shown a link between mental illnesses and certain physical illnesses”such as cancer - Speech Link
2: Maria Caulfield (Con - Lewes) suffer with mental illness have significantly poorer health outcomes for major conditions including cancer - Speech Link
Asked by: Navendu Mishra (Labour - Stockport)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 18 April 2024 to Question 21865 on Bowel Cancer: Greater Manchester, what is the average waiting time to receive (a) an appointment for a coloscopy and (b) the results from a colonoscopy in (i) England, (ii) Greater Manchester and (iii) Stepping Hill Hospital.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
Statistics on diagnostics waiting times via modality for England, and at commissioner and provider levels, is publicly available and can be accessed via the following link:
Asked by: Karin Smyth (Labour - Bristol South)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether she has made an assessment of progress in the development of a clinical analytical service for specialised commissioning.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
Commissioners of Specialised Services have access to the analysis of clinical data via their regional business intelligence teams, or the nationally commissioned Commissioning Support Unit (CSU) service provision.
Routine reporting can be accessed via the National Commissioning Data Repository, and more focused analytics can be performed across commissioning and clinical datasets collected by NHS England. NHS England has developed 181 Specialised Services Quality Dashboards alongside service specifications, which provide additional data to monitor the quality of services and maintain clinical registries ranging from bowel cancer to pulmonary hypertension. The full list is available at the following link:
https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/clinical-audits-and-registries
Asked by: Damien Moore (Conservative - Southport)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent progress she has made on increasing access to cancer screening in the North West.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
NHS England North West has carried out significant work to improve access to cancer screening in the area, including: insight work into cervical screening, which has highlighted some issues, resulting in the piloting of potential solutions; a breast mobile site review being carried out, with findings and recommendations to be shared with trusts to act upon; five bowel and seven breast providers have been trained to use data to develop a Health Equity Audit, which will be submitted at the end of June 2024, with funding being offered to providers to design, develop, implement, and evaluate an intervention to reduce inequalities and barriers experienced by a population group they have identified in their Health Equity Audit; and funding being provided for Improving Uptake in Screening Officers, working to support non responders to take up the offer of breast screening.
Formal Minutes May. 09 2024
Committee: Northern Ireland Affairs Committee (Department: Northern Ireland Office)Found: Miscellaneous Unremunerated trustee of Bowel and Cancer Research.
Mentions:
1: Lord Mott (Con - Life peer) When it works well, homecare offers people with inflammatory bowel disease the opportunity to receive - Speech Link
2: Lord Markham (Con - Life peer) area of precision medicine there is just such an opportunity there for a whole new way of treating cancer—I - Speech Link
Asked by: Baroness Merron (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government what practical assistance is available for those with a physical or mental condition which prevents them from doing medical tests at home, such as bowel cancer screening, unaided.
Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
We are aware of the issues faced by some people with physical or mental health conditions that can make attending a screening appointment, or carrying out a home test, more difficult. Currently, national screening IT systems do not have the facilities to flag conditions for individuals which could make it more difficult to carry out the bowel cancer screening, fecal immunochemical test (FIT) at home. It is therefore recommended that individuals contact their general practice (GP) in these situations, so that GPs can work with the screening provider to arrange further support. For example, carrying out a FIT test at the GP or at home, with the support of a family member or community nurse.
NHS England has started work to improve its national screening IT systems through the Digital Transformation of Screening programme. This will enable screening providers to flag heath issues that may make carrying out a FIT test at home more difficult, and to offer any appropriate support.
Asked by: Baroness Merron (Labour - Life peer)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask His Majesty's Government which groups have a lower-than-average rate of participation in home-kit bowel cancer screening; and what plans they have to increase participation.
Answered by Lord Markham - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
The national IT system for the NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme does not routinely collect data that could identify groups that have a lower-than-average uptake rate of the fecal immunochemical bowel cancer screening test.
Research has found that groups which are less likely to take part in bowel screening include men, people from ethnic minority backgrounds, and people in more deprived areas. Physical or mental health conditions can also make carrying out a home test more difficult.
NHS England has started work to improve its national screening IT systems through the Digital Transformation of Screening programme. This will enable screening providers to record protected characteristics, to more accurately identify groups with the lowest uptake, and target initiatives to improve uptake.
Asked by: Navendu Mishra (Labour - Stockport)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment her Department has made of the adequacy of (a) diagnosis and (b) treatment services for bowel cancer at Stepping Hill hospital.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
No specific assessment has been made of the adequacy of diagnosis and treatment services for bowel cancer at Stepping Hill Hospital. However, data held at the provider level can give us insight into lower gastrointestinal (GI) cancer for Stockport NHS Foundation Trust. Of those patients referred to Stockport NHS Foundation Trust for suspected lower GI cancer in February 2024, 86.1% received a diagnosis or ruling out of cancer within 28 days. This is above the 75.0% standard, and shows an increase of 4.2% since January. Furthermore, of those patients referred to Stockport NHS Foundation Trust for lower GI cancer in February 2024, 95.2% received a first or subsequent treatment within 31 days of a decision to treat. This is above national performance of 91.1%, against the standard of 96.0%. For lower GI cancer in the same period, 67.4% of patients received treatment within 62 days of an urgent suspected cancer or screening referral, or consultant upgrade, to a first definitive treatment for cancer. This is above national performance of 63.9% against the standard of 85.0%.
Apr. 29 2024
Source Page: Scottish Government call for evidence: tackling consumption of single-use food containers and other commonly littered or problematic single-use items - summary of responsesFound: Link 80 ERIC – The Children’s Bowel and Bla dder Charity (2023). Home page.