Media Monitoring: 17 – 23 October

New figures published show the NHS diagnosed over 11,000 more cancers in 2022, reaching a new record high level – with almost 950 people a day getting a diagnosis in England.
The latest cancer registration statistics show more cancers were diagnosed in 2022, with 346,217 new diagnoses – on average 948 a day – compared to 329,664 in 2021 (an increase of 5%).
The figures show that among men there was a 7% increase in overall cancer diagnoses in 2022, from 167,917 to 180,877. This was mainly due to the increase in prostate cancers which rose by more than a quarter to 54,732. In women, there was a 2% increase in diagnoses, from 161,747 to 165,340. More cancers continue to be diagnosed and registered among men (180,877) than women (165,340).

Fears have been raised that Wes Streeting’s inflation-busting funding deal for the NHS will not be enough for him to pay for the reforms he wants to drive through.
Sources have told The Independent that the Department for Health and Social Care is set to get about 4 per cent – between £7bn and £8bn – as Mr Streeting confirmed that he has mostly agreed his settlement with chancellor Rachel Reeves.
But despite the figure being the most generous settlement for any government department, experts and NHS insiders have been warned by insiders that it is “a stand still settlement” while, the respected King’s Fund suggested it would be “hard to say what amount would really be ‘enough’”.

Parliament’s first “bionic lord” has taken his seat in the House of Lords and said he will use his position to raise awareness of sepsis and improve the quality of prosthetics offered to amputees.
On Thursday, Lord Mackinlay of Richborough became the first quadruple amputee to sit in the House of Lords after he was given a peerage in Rishi Sunak’s dissolution honours list.
The former MP had both his legs and arms amputated in December after contracting sepsis.

Partners from across the NHS, industry and academia came together earlier this week for a series of talks and discussions highlighting the key role of partnership to improve local and global health, as part of the first Paddington Life Sciences annual symposium.
The event marks one year since launching Paddington Life Sciences Partners – a collaboration bringing together the NHS, industry and academic organisations with a shared commitment to developing a life sciences cluster centred around St Mary’s Hospital in Paddington.
Professor the Lord Darzi of Denham, who recently published an independent report into the state of the NHS, highlighted the critical condition of the health system but stated that vital signs were still ‘strong’.

The investment will be made into Cancer Research UK’s Cambridge Institute.
The award, which will support the Institute over the next seven years, will enable world-class discovery science, unlocking new insights into how cancers develop, grow and spread, as well as examining how the immune system can be harnessed to combat the disease.