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Prostate Cancer: Medical Treatments

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the National Prostate Cancer Audit's report entitled NPCA State of the Nation Report 2024, published in January 2025, if he will take steps to tackle inequalities in accessing NIC

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
6 Feb 2025
Target answer date
10 Feb 2025
Answer
17 Feb 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 6 Feb 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the National Prostate Cancer Audit's report entitled NPCA State of the Nation Report 2024, published in January 2025, if he will take steps to tackle inequalities in accessing NIC

  2. 10 Feb 2025

    Target answer date

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  3. 17 Feb 2025

    Answer published

    Making improvements across different cancer types, including prostate cancer, is critical to reducing disparities in cancer survival. Early cancer diagnosis is also a specific priority within the National Health Service’s wider Core20Plus5 approach to red...

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Possible follow-up questions

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12 Feb 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to tackle tobacco bundle packs; and whether he has made an assessment of the potential merits of prohibiting the promotion of these bundles.

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IVF

17 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the success rate of IVF is in each of the last ten years for which information is available.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Embryos

17 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many human embryos were discarded in each of the last ten years for which information is available; and what uses discarded embryos are put to.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

IVF

17 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what information his Department holds on the health outcomes for children born by IVF.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Earwax: Medical Treatments

17 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that community-based ear wax removal services are made available to patients in (a) Harrow East constituency and (b) England.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Audiology

17 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support the move toward patient self-referral for community audiology services as a default pathway in (a) Harrow East constituency and (b) England.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Pregnancy: Smoking

14 May 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the allocated budget is for the smokefree pregnancy incentive scheme for the year 2025-26.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Health Services

4 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of the recommendations of the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease's 2025 annual report on Global Strate

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Lung Cancer: Screening

4 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential implications for its policies of the work of the Lung Health Check programme at the Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Bowel Cancer: Health Services

9 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what plans his Department has to improve survival rates for bowel cancer.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Gastrointestinal Cancer: Health Services

9 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to reduce the number of people with lower gastrointestinal cancers waiting beyond 62 days from urgent referral for their first definitive treatment.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Babies: Screening

9 Jun 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many babies were born with conditions not picked up during screening tests in each of the last ten years for which data is available.