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Cancer: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he is taking steps to reinstate the National Cancer Equality Initiative to examine inequalities in cancer care.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
11 Sept 2024
Target answer date
7 Oct 2024
Answer
8 Oct 2024 · 27 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 11 Sept 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he is taking steps to reinstate the National Cancer Equality Initiative to examine inequalities in cancer care.

  2. 7 Oct 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 8 Oct 2024

    Answer published

    There are currently no plans to reinstate the National Cancer Equality Initiative. Making improvements across different cancer types is critical to reducing inequalities in cancer survival. Early cancer diagnosis is also a specific priority within the Nat...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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Possible follow-up questions

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Prostate Cancer: Colne Valley

4 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve prostate cancer (a) screening and (b) awareness in Colne Valley constituency.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Mental Health: Men

4 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to (a) raise awareness of and (b) tackle stigma associated with (i) loneliness and (ii) mental health challenges among men.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Visual Impairment: Rehabilitation

4 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that vision rehabilitation services are subject to the same (a) regulation and (b) monitoring as other adult social care services.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Visual Impairment: Rehabilitation

4 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of making vision rehabilitation specialists a regulated profession.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Visual Impairment: Rehabilitation

4 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to improve the integration of services between secondary and social care settings to ensure a seamless route into vision rehabilitation.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Visual Impairment: Rehabilitation

4 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his planned timetable is for implementing the proposed changes to (a) vision rehabilitation services and (b) professional recognition.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Pancreatic Enzyme Replacement Therapy: Shortages

4 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help ensure that local solutions to manage shortages of Pancreatic Enzyme Replacement Therapy are shared nationally.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Pancreatic Cancer

4 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he has taken to improve awareness of the hereditary risk of pancreatic cancer.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Cancer

4 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of developing a specific Action Plan for (a) cancers of the (i) brain, (ii) liver, (iii) lung, (iv) stomach, (v) oesophagus and (vi) pancreas and

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Mental Health Services: Access

10 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make a comparative assessment of the adequacy of access to mental health provision in (a) urban and (b) rural areas.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Mental Health Services: Standards

10 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure parity in the adequacy of mental health resources in (a) rural and (b) urban areas.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Visual Impairment: Rehabilitation

18 Oct 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 4 October 2024 to Question UIN 7300on Visual Impairment: Rehabilitation, what evidence informed his Department's decision not to regulate vision rehabilitation specialists