Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of surveillance measures for liver cancer in the UK.
Liver surveillance is key to identifying liver cancers earlier and NHS England’s National Cancer Programme is providing £6 million to Cancer Alliances in 2023/24 to improve liver surveillance programmes. Cancer Alliances across the country are supporting providers to ensure that patients eligible for liver surveillance under the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance receive it and are supported to attend surveillance appointments where they may find this difficult.