To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps he is taking to increase cancer screening rates in Liverpool; and how much he has spent on public health campaigns to increase cancer screening rates in Liverpool in each year since 2010.
Answered on
17 October 2014
Since early 2011 the Department of Health (Public Health England from 1 April 2013) has been running Be Clear on Cancer campaigns. These are designed to:
- raise the public’s awareness of specific cancer symptoms
- encourage people with those symptoms to go to the doctor
- catch cancer at an earlier stage, and therefore make it more treatable, and thereby improve cancer survival rates
The NHS England Merseyside Area Team and Public health England have been working together to develop a cancer screening plan to improve breast, cervical and bowel cancer screening uptake rates in Merseyside and they are working closely with our partners including other clinical commissioning groups in the areas, local authorities and providers to name just a few.