Mentions:
1: Nickie Aiken (Con - Cities of London and Westminster) the Sleep Charity published “Dreaming of Change: a Manifesto for Sleep”, which highlights the serious mental - Speech Link
2: Andrew Bridgen (Ind - North West Leicestershire) Can we have a statement from a Health Minister? - Speech Link
3: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) Next month, the team at Pollokshields early years centre are running the Cancer Research UK Race for - Speech Link
4: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) We have made dramatic progress in the past few years on many therapy areas—cancer in particular—and we - Speech Link
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1: Navendu Mishra (Lab - Stockport) She is a long-standing champion of public services and better healthcare provision for all.I am grateful - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) services but to people’s life outcomes. - Speech Link
3: Preet Kaur Gill (LAB - Birmingham, Edgbaston) grant in the spending review in March, even as alcohol treatment services have been hollowed out over - Speech Link
4: Navendu Mishra (Lab - Stockport) inequalities and a prompt, comprehensive review of adult liver services by NHS England. - Speech Link
Written Evidence Apr. 24 2024
Inquiry: Preterm BirthFound: PRT0077 - Preterm Birth Action on Smoking and Health Written Evidence
Written Evidence Apr. 24 2024
Inquiry: NHS leadership, performance and patient safetyFound: Managing the Care of Health and the Cure of Disease.
Oral Evidence Apr. 24 2024
Inquiry: Non-contact sexual offencesFound: are potentially many years of historical information about these people, there are often complex mental
Found: Food, diet, nutrition and cancer
Mentions:
1: Andrew Stephenson (Con - Pendle) I am pleased that NHS England is reviewing mental health services for all staff, to ensure that all staff - Speech Link
2: Rosena Allin-Khan (Lab - Tooting) Last year, 6.4 million mental health sick days were taken across the NHS. - Speech Link
3: Andrew Stephenson (Con - Pendle) NHS England is reviewing mental health services for all staff who need them, to ensure that they can - Speech Link
4: Helen Whately (Con - Faversham and Mid Kent) Friend rightly flags the excellent work going on to improve access to mental health services across the - Speech Link
Apr. 22 2024
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Asked by: Dawn Butler (Labour - Brent Central)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to help ensure the Major Conditions Strategy improves breast cancer outcomes for ethnic minority women.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
Reducing inequalities and improving breast cancer outcomes for ethnic minority women, including black women, is a priority for the Government. To support this work, NHS England has commissioned six 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 treatments and outcomes for patients, including metastatic breast cancer. The Royal College of Surgeons began work on this audit in October 2022, and the first outcomes are expected in September 2024.
NHS England is also leading a programme of work to tackle healthcare inequalities centred around five clear priorities, which are set out in operational planning guidance for the health system. The Core20PLUS5 approach for adults has been rolled out as an NHS England framework to focus action on reducing inequalities on issues within the National Health Services’ direct influence, which are major contributors to inequalities in life expectancy through major conditions like cancer, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, and others, or Long-Term Plan priorities where stark inequalities are evident, such as maternity or severe mental illness.
The key actions for systems as highlighted in NHS England’s planning guidance for 2024/25 is to continue to deliver against the five strategic priorities for tackling health inequalities. Additionally, by the end of June 2024, NHS England aims to publish joined-up action plans to address health inequalities, and implement the Core20PLUS5 approach.
Improving earlier diagnosis of cancers, including breast cancer, is also a priority for the Government. The NHS has an ambition to diagnose 75% of cancers at stage 1 or 2 by 2028, which will help tens of thousands of people live for longer. Additionally, the new cancer standards developed and supported by cancer doctors and implemented in October 2023, will ensure patients are diagnosed faster, and that treatment starts earlier. In the 2023/24 Operational Planning Guidance, NHS England announced that it is providing over £390 million in cancer service development funding to Cancer Alliances in each of the next two years, to support the delivery of the strategy and the operational priorities for cancer, which includes increasing and prioritising diagnostic and treatment capacity.
Whilst the Major Conditions Strategy does not seek to describe everything that is being done, or could be done, to meet the challenges of individual conditions in silo, it instead focuses on the changes likely to make the most difference across the six groups of major conditions, including cancer.
Asked by: Dawn Butler (Labour - Brent Central)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps her Department is taking to improve breast cancer outcomes amongst Black women.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
Reducing inequalities and improving breast cancer outcomes for ethnic minority women, including black women, is a priority for the Government. To support this work, NHS England has commissioned six 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 treatments and outcomes for patients, including metastatic breast cancer. The Royal College of Surgeons began work on this audit in October 2022, and the first outcomes are expected in September 2024.
NHS England is also leading a programme of work to tackle healthcare inequalities centred around five clear priorities, which are set out in operational planning guidance for the health system. The Core20PLUS5 approach for adults has been rolled out as an NHS England framework to focus action on reducing inequalities on issues within the National Health Services’ direct influence, which are major contributors to inequalities in life expectancy through major conditions like cancer, cardiovascular disease, respiratory disease, and others, or Long-Term Plan priorities where stark inequalities are evident, such as maternity or severe mental illness.
The key actions for systems as highlighted in NHS England’s planning guidance for 2024/25 is to continue to deliver against the five strategic priorities for tackling health inequalities. Additionally, by the end of June 2024, NHS England aims to publish joined-up action plans to address health inequalities, and implement the Core20PLUS5 approach.
Improving earlier diagnosis of cancers, including breast cancer, is also a priority for the Government. The NHS has an ambition to diagnose 75% of cancers at stage 1 or 2 by 2028, which will help tens of thousands of people live for longer. Additionally, the new cancer standards developed and supported by cancer doctors and implemented in October 2023, will ensure patients are diagnosed faster, and that treatment starts earlier. In the 2023/24 Operational Planning Guidance, NHS England announced that it is providing over £390 million in cancer service development funding to Cancer Alliances in each of the next two years, to support the delivery of the strategy and the operational priorities for cancer, which includes increasing and prioritising diagnostic and treatment capacity.
Whilst the Major Conditions Strategy does not seek to describe everything that is being done, or could be done, to meet the challenges of individual conditions in silo, it instead focuses on the changes likely to make the most difference across the six groups of major conditions, including cancer.