Cancer: Young People

(asked on 3rd September 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the implications for his Department's policies of the findings and recommendations of CLIC Sargent’s report, Are we nearly there yet?, published in September 2018.


Answered by
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 11th September 2018

I will consider the recommendations of this report carefully. As part of the Recovery Package, the holistic needs assessment and care plan includes a focus on financial concerns that patients may have. The holistic needs assessment questions can be adapted for teenagers and young people specifically. The Recovery Package also recognises the needs of parents/carers of children living with and beyond cancer such as their circumstances to ensure that the right support is in place. More generally, last year through our NHS Low Income Scheme, the Department helped over 337,000 applicants on a low income to pay for health costs, including the cost of travelling to receive National Health Service treatment.

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