Improving Outcomes: a strategy for cancer first – annual report provides an update on prevention of cancer including:
- Human papilloma virus vaccination programme
- SunSmart
- Sunbeds
- Smoking
- Obesity
- Diet and cancer
- Alcohol
- Occupational cancer prevention
- Aspirin and prevention
- Screening
There are links to programmes of work and new policy, for example:
Priorities for the coming year mainly surround implementation
- the government’s strategies on prevention
- continuing expansion of the cancer screening programmes
- responding to the outcome of the independent review of breast cancer screening, while implementing the randomisation project and the conversion to digital mammography
- first pilot sites for implementation of flexible sigmoidoscopy
- tackling the challenges of endoscopy capacity
- ensuring that the commissioning and delivery of cancer screening programmes are managed smoothly during and after the transition to the new health system
The preparation for the implementation of the new public health system will be a focus for public health in 2012/13. Cancer networks are building new working links with public health and will want to keep up to date with debates and decisions. See for example:
- Public health transition factsheets such as Public Health in Local Government and Public Health England's Operating Model
- The NHS’s Role in the Public’s Health: a report from the NHS Future Forum
Contact
Kathy Elliott - National Lead for Prevention, Early Diagnosis and Inequalities
kathy.elliott@ncat.nhs.uk
020 8282 6261
Links
info.cancerresearchuk.org/healthyliving/
www.nhs.uk/livewell/preventing-cancer/Pages/Preventing-cancer-home.aspx