Written Question
Wednesday 28th April 2021
Asked by:
Lord Aberdare (Crossbench - Excepted Hereditary)
Question
to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many pancreatic cancer surgeries have been cancelled in each month since January 2020.
Answered by Lord Bethell
The data requested on cancelled surgery is not collected centrally.
Written Question
Wednesday 28th April 2021
Asked by:
Lord Aberdare (Crossbench - Excepted Hereditary)
Question
to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many people have been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in each month since January 2020; and what percentage of those diagnoses have been at Stage (1) 1, (2) 2, (3) 3, and (4) 4, respectively.
Answered by Lord Bethell
The number of diagnoses of pancreatic cancer by stage of diagnosis in 2020 is not yet available. The stage group by cancer type for diagnoses in 2020 is expected to be published in 2022.
Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 05 Nov 2019
Health and Social Care: Malnutrition
"To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the prevalence and impact of malnutrition among people in health and social care settings; and what steps they are taking to prevent it...."Lord Aberdare - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 05 Nov 2019
Health and Social Care: Malnutrition
"My Lords, I thank the noble Baroness for that response. Even here in the UK, malnutrition is shockingly underrecognised and undertreated. Some 3 million people live with malnutrition, including one in 10 older people. One in six patients admitted to hospital, and about 40% of those entering care homes, are …..."Lord Aberdare - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Tue 22 Oct 2019
Queen’s Speech
"My Lords, when thinking about what to say today about last week’s gracious manifesto, I found myself facing two challenges. The first was how to address commitments that seem unlikely to be implemented before another Queen’s Speech following a general election. The second was that the Speech itself had little …..."Lord Aberdare - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 29 Nov 2018
Health: Cancer
"My Lords, pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest cancers. One in four sufferers survives for less than a month after diagnosis, and only 7% survive for five years. What is more, the outcomes have hardly improved in the last 40 years. Will the Minister join me in welcoming the …..."Lord Aberdare - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Thu 29 Jun 2017
Queen’s Speech
"My Lords, it is pleasure to follow the noble Baroness, Lady Benjamin, especially as, unlike some of her colleagues, she has not pre-empted many of my own remarks.
I shall focus on skills and the creative industries. The success of Brexit will depend on the competitiveness of UK business in …..."Lord Aberdare - View Speech
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Written Question
Wednesday 28th September 2016
Asked by:
Lord Aberdare (Crossbench - Excepted Hereditary)
Question
to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the light of the finding of the recent British Red Cross research report <i>Are prehospital deaths from trauma and accidental injury preventable? </i>that up to 59 per cent of pre-hospital deaths from injury could have been prevented with basic first aid, what they are doing to ensure that first aid education features within public health strategies.
Answered by Baroness Chisholm of Owlpen
The Government recognises that the timely application of first aid can help minimise the impact of injuries, as well as health conditions such as heart attacks and strokes, and contribute to avoiding preventable deaths.
The NHS Choices website contains information for the public on first aid responses to various injuries and health incidents including burns, bleeding, choking, drowning, fractures, heart attacks, strokes and poisoning; the possible symptoms to note; how to respond to them; and how to administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation. A copy of the relevant NHS Choices web page is attached.
In addition, the Government is making available another £1 million to make public access defibrillators and coronary pulmonary resuscitation training more widely available in communities across England. This builds on last year’s funding of £1 million, which provided almost 700 more publicly accessible defibrillators in communities across England and increased the numbers of people trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
The national Act Fast campaign also aims to raise awareness of the symptoms of stroke, teach people what to look out for in themselves and others, and encourage those who notice the symptoms to call 999. Since Act Fast launched in 2009, it is estimated that an additional 47,000 people reached hospital within the vital three-hour window and over 5,000 fewer people became disabled as a result of a stroke.
Local authorities in England have the lead responsibility for identifying and meeting needs for local interventions to improve the health of their populations, including steps to reduce preventable deaths.
Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 20 Jan 2016
Health: Cancer
"My Lords, I congratulate the noble Baroness, Lady Walmsley, on securing this debate and on making a number of points in her excellent speech—as indeed did other noble Lords—of such merit that I plan to repeat them.
It is good news that cancer death rates have fallen steadily in the …..."Lord Aberdare - View Speech
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Speech in Lords Chamber - Wed 20 Jan 2016
Health: Cancer
"My Lords, before the noble Lord sits down, I hope that I did not misspeak, but the figure I cited of 5% for pancreatic survival was for five years, not one. I apologise if I misled the Minister...."Lord Aberdare - View Speech
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