NHS staff delivered a record number of cancer checks and treatments in July, despite 5 days of industrial action. A record 236,263 people got a cancer diagnosis or the disease ruled out within 28 days in July – meeting the Faster Diagnosis Standard – while 21,633 patients started cancer treatment within 62 days, the highest […]

Thousands more people are being referred for potentially life-saving liver cancer checks following the expansion of the NHS’s community liver health check programme. The number of mobile liver scanning teams has almost doubled in the last 2 years, with 20 roaming teams now offering scans to communities in every region of England – up from […]

More than a thousand patients living with bladder cancer every year can now receive a breakthrough treatment that can double survival rates from the disease. The treatment which has been approved for use on the NHS from today has been hailed as ‘one of the most hopeful advances in decades for people with bladder cancer.’ […]

Patients with advanced head and neck cancers in England will be fast-tracked into a trial of a new cancer vaccine, as the NHS expands its world-leading trial ‘match-making’ service. The investigational cancer vaccine uses mRNA technology to help the immune system recognise and kill cancer cells containing human papillomavirus proteins. More than 100 patients with […]

The NHS is urging hundreds of thousands of people yet to have the lifesaving human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine to get protected against cervical and other cancers. GP practices across England will send invites via letters, emails, texts and the NHS App to patients aged 16-25 whose records show they did not get their HPV vaccination […]

People with persistent heartburn or acid reflux will be offered an innovative ‘sponge on a string’ test in high-street pharmacies for the first time, as part of a new NHS pilot to help prevent oesophageal cancer. NHS England has today announced that dozens of pharmacies in England will offer new ‘heartburn health checks’ to test for Barrett’s oesophagus, […]

Hundreds of GP practices will comb patient records to offer urgent tests to people most at risk of pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest forms of the disease. GP teams will scour online patients records to identify people over 60 who have the key early warning signs of pancreatic cancer including being recently diagnosed with […]

The NHS in England will be the first health system in the world to roll-out a ‘trojan horse’ targeted therapy for blood cancer patients which could halt the disease’s progression by nearly three times as long as existing treatments.  Around 1,500 patients a year with multiple myeloma – an incurable cancer of the bone marrow […]

Millions of patients will benefit from cutting-edge NHS robotic surgery over the next decade as part of radical plans to cut waiting times. Half a million operations will be supported by the trailblazing approach every year by 2035, up from 70,000 in 2023/24, according to NHS projections. 9 in 10 of all keyhole surgeries, such […]

More accurate human papillomavirus (HPV) testing will enable millions of women and people with a cervix in England to benefit from more personalised cervical screening from next month, the NHS has announced today. From July, younger women (aged 25 to 49) who test negative for HPV, meaning they are at very low risk of cervical […]