Question follow-through · 71551

Skin Cancer: Health Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase public awareness of (a) the causes of and (b) actions they can take to help prevent skin cancer.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 29 Aug 2025
Target answer date: 2 Sept 2025
Answer: 5 Sept 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

29 Aug 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase public awareness of (a) the causes of and (b) actions they can take to help prevent skin cancer.
2 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
5 Sept 2025
Answer published
NHS England runs Help Us Help You campaigns in England to increase knowledge of cancer symptoms and to address barriers to acting on them, to encourage people to come forward as soon as possible to see their general practitioner. The campaigns focus on a ...

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