Mentions:
1: Mary Glindon (Lab - North Tyneside) I know someone with prostate cancer—this example is from my family experience—who carries a card that - Speech Link
2: Darren Henry (Con - Broxtowe) I got to work to ensure that banking services would be available in our high street. - Speech Link
3: Nickie Aiken (Con - Cities of London and Westminster) Mulberry, Ralph Lauren and Tiffany—I could go on.The Bill goes to the heart of why we need to ensure the health - Speech Link
4: Maria Miller (Con - Basingstoke) The police forces in our various parts of the country have an important role to play in the future health - Speech Link
5: Jacob Young (Con - Redcar) That will ensure local authorities not only prioritise the health of their high streets, but use their - Speech Link
Formal Minutes Apr. 25 2024
Committee: Justice Committee (Department: Ministry of Justice)Found: , dated 10 November 2023 Draft Mental Health Bill Update Correspondence from the Minister
Written Evidence Apr. 25 2024
Inquiry: Devolution of employment supportFound: problems such as cardiovascular disease, cancer, and diabetes. b) Regional variations?
Apr. 25 2024
Source Page: Regulatory Horizons Council: the Future Regulation of Space TechnologiesFound: challenges of long -term living in space (such as dental health and osteoporosis).
Mentions:
1: Andrew Bridgen (Ind - North West Leicestershire) Can we have a statement from a Health Minister? - Speech Link
2: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) Next month, the team at Pollokshields early years centre are running the Cancer Research UK Race for - Speech Link
3: Penny Mordaunt (Con - Portsmouth North) We have made dramatic progress in the past few years on many therapy areas—cancer in particular—and we - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Navendu Mishra (Lab - Stockport) She is a long-standing champion of public services and better healthcare provision for all.I am grateful - Speech Link
2: Sharon Hodgson (Lab - Washington and Sunderland West) In the short term, I urge Ministers to deliver a prompt and comprehensive review of adult liver services - Speech Link
3: Alison Thewliss (SNP - Glasgow Central) services but to people’s life outcomes. - Speech Link
4: Preet Kaur Gill (LAB - Birmingham, Edgbaston) grant in the spending review in March, even as alcohol treatment services have been hollowed out over - Speech Link
5: Navendu Mishra (Lab - Stockport) inequalities and a prompt, comprehensive review of adult liver services by NHS England. - Speech Link
Asked by: Navendu Mishra (Labour - Stockport)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment she has made of performance against the 62-day referral to treatment cancer standard in England.
Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
In February 2024, 63.9% of patients, against the standard of 85%, received treatment within 62 days of an urgent suspected cancer or breast symptomatic referral or consultant upgrade, to a first definitive treatment for cancer. This is 1.6% higher than performance in January 2024, and 1.4% higher than the same time last year.
The pandemic and recent industrial action placed significant pressure on elective services, including cancer care. We are seeing record levels of referrals, with over 12,000 urgent referrals seen for suspected cancer per working day in February 2024.
As outlined in the 2024/25 NHS England Planning Guidance, NHS England is providing over £266 million in cancer service development funding to Cancer Alliances to support delivery of the operational priorities for cancer, which includes increasing and prioritising diagnostic and treatment capacity. The Government remains committed to continuing its recovery from the pandemic, and specifically, to reduce local and national waiting times for cancer treatment.
Asked by: Rachael Maskell (Labour (Co-op) - York Central)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to encourage pregnant women to undertake smoking cessation programmes.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
Smoking is the number one entirely preventable cause of ill-health, disability, and death in this country. It is responsible for 80,000 yearly deaths in the United Kingdom, and one in four of all UK cancer deaths. Smoking in pregnancy increases the risk of stillbirth, miscarriage, and sudden infant death.
As set out in Stopping the Start: our new plan to create a smokefree generation, we are establishing a financially incentivised scheme to help pregnant smokers and their partners to quit smoking, with smoking cessation support. This evidence-based intervention will encourage pregnant women to give up smoking, and remain smokefree throughout pregnancy and beyond, helping to improve the health and wellbeing of both mother and baby.
The objective is to have all maternity trusts that wish to participate in the scheme signed up by the end of 2024, so that all pregnant women who smoke in participating areas will be offered the opportunity to join the incentive scheme by December 2024.
This financial incentive scheme builds upon the NHS Long Term Plan’s ambition to ensure that all pregnant smokers can access behavioural support to quit from within maternity services, as well as additional funding for mass marketing campaigns on stopping smoking.
Asked by: Rachael Maskell (Labour (Co-op) - York Central)
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to help increase the number of people participating in smoking cessation programmes.
Answered by Andrea Leadsom - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
Smoking is the number one entirely preventable cause of ill-health, disability and death in this country. It is responsible for 80,000 yearly deaths in the United Kingdom and one in four of all UK cancer deaths. It costs our country £17 billion a year, £14 billion of which is through lost productivity alone. It puts a huge pressure on the National Health Service and social care, costing over £3 billion a year. Quitting smoking is the best thing a smoker can do for their health and smokers are three times as likely to succeed with stop smoking services (SSS) when compared to an unsupported quit attempt.
As announced in Stopping the start: our new plan to create a smokefree generation, published in October 2023, the Government is investing an additional £70 million per year for five years to support local authority-led SSS, around doubling current spend and supporting 360,000 people to set a quit date each year. To support engagement with SSS, and increase motivation to quit, we are spending an additional £15 million per year to fund national anti-smoking campaigns. We are also investing up to £45 million over two years to roll out our national ‘Swap to Stop’ scheme and establishing a financial incentives scheme to help pregnant smokers and their partners quit smoking with smoking cessation support.
Vaping is never recommended for children, and carries the potential harms of future addiction while their lungs and brains are still developing. The health advice is clear, vapes can be an effective tool to help smokers quit, but young people and those who have never smoked should not vape, or be encouraged to vape.
Written Evidence Apr. 24 2024
Inquiry: Preterm BirthFound: PRT0077 - Preterm Birth Action on Smoking and Health Written Evidence