Asked by: Helen Hayes (Labour - Dulwich and West Norwood)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of streamlining the process for making packaging changes on licensed smoking cessation products.
Answered by Neil O'Brien
No assessment has been made.
Asked by: Helen Hayes (Labour - Dulwich and West Norwood)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to his Department’s press release entitled Smokers urged to swap cigarettes for vapes in world first scheme, published on 11 April 2023, when his Department plans to consult on introducing mandatory cigarette pack inserts.
Answered by Neil O'Brien
On 14 August 2023, the Department launched the public consultation on mandating quit information messages inside tobacco packs. The consultation across the United Kingdom will close on 10 October 2023 and more information is available at the following link:
Asked by: Helen Hayes (Labour - Dulwich and West Norwood)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his Department's policies of increases in the diagnosis of colorectal cancer and BRAF mutation among younger people in (a) England and (b) Europe.
Answered by Will Quince
No assessment has been made.
The UK National Screening committee (UK NSC) has not considered the BRAF mutation as part of the bowel cancer screening programme. However, the UK NSC remains open to any suggestions that could improve screening programmes and these can be submitted through the UK NSC website during their three-month annual call for topics.
Improving referral rates are an essential part of delivering our goal to improve cancer survival rates and show that our efforts to encourage people to come forward, including the ‘Help Us Help You’ campaign, are working. For bowel cancer, the campaign urged people to take up the new home testing kit and have extended the screening offer to those aged 50-74 to ensure more people are diagnosed with bowel cancer at the earliest stage.
Asked by: Helen Hayes (Labour - Dulwich and West Norwood)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for NHS (a) testing and (b) screening programmes of increases in the diagnosis of colorectal cancer and BRAF mutation in younger people.
Answered by Will Quince
No assessment has been made.
The UK National Screening committee (UK NSC) has not considered the BRAF mutation as part of the bowel cancer screening programme. However, the UK NSC remains open to any suggestions that could improve screening programmes and these can be submitted through the UK NSC website during their three-month annual call for topics.
Improving referral rates are an essential part of delivering our goal to improve cancer survival rates and show that our efforts to encourage people to come forward, including the ‘Help Us Help You’ campaign, are working. For bowel cancer, the campaign urged people to take up the new home testing kit and have extended the screening offer to those aged 50-74 to ensure more people are diagnosed with bowel cancer at the earliest stage.
Asked by: Helen Hayes (Labour - Dulwich and West Norwood)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of faecal immunochemical tests in diagnosing cancer in under-50s in England; and what assessment he has made of levels of adherence to NICE guidelines on the use of those tests.
Answered by Will Quince
No assessment has been made on the link between iron anaemia and colorectal cancer for national screening purposes. Colorectal cancer is more common in people over the age of 50, but it can affect people of any age. To identify patients who have symptoms that do not align to a particular type of tumour, including for non-specific symptoms of colorectal cancer, the National Health Service has implemented ‘non-specific symptom pathways’. There are 103 pathways currently in place with the aim to have national coverage by March 2024.
To encourage people to see their general practitioner if they notice symptoms that could be cancer, NHS England runs the ‘Help Us, Help You’ campaigns, which address the barriers that deter patients from accessing the NHS.
Asked by: Helen Hayes (Labour - Dulwich and West Norwood)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for NHS (a) testing and (b) screening protocols of the potential link between (i) iron anaemia and (ii) colorectal cancer.
Answered by Will Quince
No assessment has been made on the link between iron anaemia and colorectal cancer for national screening purposes. Colorectal cancer is more common in people over the age of 50, but it can affect people of any age. To identify patients who have symptoms that do not align to a particular type of tumour, including for non-specific symptoms of colorectal cancer, the National Health Service has implemented ‘non-specific symptom pathways’. There are 103 pathways currently in place with the aim to have national coverage by March 2024.
To encourage people to see their general practitioner if they notice symptoms that could be cancer, NHS England runs the ‘Help Us, Help You’ campaigns, which address the barriers that deter patients from accessing the NHS.
Asked by: Helen Hayes (Labour - Dulwich and West Norwood)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 10 January 2023 to Question 114704 on Public Health: Finance, when his Department plans to inform local authorities of their public health grant budgets for 2023-24.
Answered by Neil O'Brien
We will announce 2023/24 Public Health Grant allocations to local authorities in England shortly.
Asked by: Helen Hayes (Labour - Dulwich and West Norwood)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many oral cancers were identified at stage (a) 0, (b) 1, (c) 2, (d) 3 and (e) 4 in each year since 2015; and how many and what proportion of those were identified by dentists.
Answered by Helen Whately - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
The National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service (NCRAS), part of NHS Digital, collects data on all cancers diagnosed in England. The following table shows the number of diagnoses of oral cancer in England between 2015 and 2020.
Year | Stage at diagnosis | Diagnoses of oral cancer | Number referred by dentists | Proportion referred by dentists |
2015 | 1 | 1,015 | 117 | 12% |
2015 | 2 | 580 | 49 | 8% |
2015 | 3 | 637 | 25 | 4% |
2015 | 4 | 3,104 | 176 | 6% |
2015 | Not staged | 418 | 12 | 3% |
2015 | Unstageable | 11 | 0 | 0% |
2016 | 1 | 1,027 | 111 | 11% |
2016 | 2 | 615 | 53 | 9% |
2016 | 3 | 554 | 27 | 5% |
2016 | 4 | 3,392 | 177 | 5% |
2016 | Not staged | 417 | 18 | 4% |
2016 | Unstageable | 7 | 0 | 0% |
2017 | 1 | 1,061 | 134 | 13% |
2017 | 2 | 613 | 58 | 9% |
2017 | 3 | 620 | 31 | 5% |
2017 | 4 | 3,429 | 214 | 6% |
2017 | Not staged | 383 | 20 | 5% |
2017 | Unstageable | 9 | 0 | 0% |
2018 | 1 | 1,060 | 132 | 12% |
2018 | 2 | 561 | 55 | 10% |
2018 | 3 | 864 | 41 | 5% |
2018 | 4 | 3,339 | 235 | 7% |
2018 | Not staged | 520 | 19 | 4% |
2018 | Unstageable | 9 | 0 | 0% |
2019 | 1 | 1,727 | 162 | 9% |
2019 | 2 | 1,063 | 88 | 8% |
2019 | 3 | 918 | 56 | 6% |
2019 | 4 | 1,941 | 270 | 14% |
2019 | Not staged | 1,091 | 63 | 6% |
2019 | Unstageable | 2 | 0 | 0% |
2020 | 1 | 1,782 | 131 | 7% |
2020 | 2 | 902 | 73 | 8% |
2020 | 3 | 929 | 49 | 5% |
2020 | 4 | 2,065 | 312 | 15% |
2020 | Not staged | 742 | 33 | 4% |
2020 | Unstageable | 2 | 0 | 0% |
Source: Cancer Registration Statistics, England 2020
Asked by: Helen Hayes (Labour - Dulwich and West Norwood)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people have attended A&E departments for emergency dental care in (a) London and (b) England each year since 2015.
Answered by Neil O'Brien
The information is not held in the format requested. The following table shows the number of NHS 111 calls per year advised to contact dental services in London and England since records began in July 2017.
Year | England | London |
2017 (from July) | 363,665 | 34,378 |
2018 | 724,220 | 73,257 |
2019 | 625,533 | 83,461 |
2020 | 858,966 | 120,720 |
2021 | 951,180 | 144,873 |
2022 (to November) | 793,029 | 127,119 |
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The number of people attending A&E for emergency dental care is not collected centrally.
Asked by: Helen Hayes (Labour - Dulwich and West Norwood)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many calls NHS 111 received on emergency dental care in (a) London and (b) England each year since 2015.
Answered by Neil O'Brien
The information is not held in the format requested. The following table shows the number of NHS 111 calls per year advised to contact dental services in London and England since records began in July 2017.
Year | England | London |
2017 (from July) | 363,665 | 34,378 |
2018 | 724,220 | 73,257 |
2019 | 625,533 | 83,461 |
2020 | 858,966 | 120,720 |
2021 | 951,180 | 144,873 |
2022 (to November) | 793,029 | 127,119 |
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The number of people attending A&E for emergency dental care is not collected centrally.