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 awareness campaigns for ovarian cancer and delivering a shorter diagnostic pathway.

NHS England is currently running a campaign focusing on increasing earlier diagnosis of a range of abdominal and urological cancers, including ovarian cancer, which was previously conducted in 2020 and 2021. In 2021 a survey of the target audience showed that knowledge of the key symptoms of abdominal and urological cancer increased by 6% during the campaign.