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Cancer: Young People

Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 187898, tabled on 6 June 2023

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure the Major Conditions Strategy’s cancer section will include a specific focus on the unique care and support needs of teenagers and young people with cancer.

Answered on

13 June 2023

The Major Conditions Strategy will take a life-course approach to tackling major conditions which will include ways to prevent ill-health from individuals' early years. We are taking an evidence-based approach to decide where and how interventions are made to achieve this and we are engaging with stakeholders representing children and young people to ensure their views are considered in the development of the strategy.