MHRA Data Strategy 2024 to 2027
- The MHRA have published their data strategy for the next three years.
- The strategy highlights their vision for data, digital technology, and real-world evidence to enable innovation and safeguard public health.
Majority of black people think racism played role in failure to test for prostate cancer
- Nearly two-thirds (62%) of black people in the UK believe racial discrimination has prevented them or a loved one from accessing a prostate cancer test, a survey has found.
- This is despite black men having twice the risk of developing the disease than the overall adult male population.
- In a survey of 2,000 black adults in the UK, 24% of those who said that either they or a male loved one requested a PSA test in the past year did not have one.
NHS must be given long-term financial security to move more care closer to home
- Around 90% of ICS leaders are committed to shifting more care out of hospitals but there are concerns around a lack of long-term funding and planning.
- ICS leaders warn that new directives on national priorities tend to focus on short-term performance and financial issues, which, while important, risk crowding out a concurrent focus on the longer-term changes they know are necessary to put the NHS on a more sustainable footing.
- Nearly nine in ten (87 per cent) say they will not be able to meet their ambitions within their current budgets.
Multi-cancer earlier detection tests: implications for screening programmes
- Cancer Research UK investigate the specific ways multi-cancer earlier detection tests (MCEDs) could be used as part of screening programmes and the key questions they raise.
Streeting considers reviving dedicated cancer strategy after Tories axed it
- Wes Streeting may revive the use of a dedicated cancer strategy to tackle the UK’s second biggest killer after experts warned the Conservatives’ scrapping of it was “a disaster” for patients.
- The health secretary is considering publishing a new comprehensive plan for England, amid record numbers of people being diagnosed with the disease and NHS cancer services struggling to meet demand.
- Previous Labour and Tory government published four cancer-specific action plans between 2000 and 2015 and they helped to bring about improvements in treatment, waiting times and survival.
NIHR accelerates research spend
- The Department of Health and Social Care has published the National Institute for Health and Care Research’s annual accounts, as the research funder underlines impact, innovation, inclusion and investment in its highlights of 2023/24.
- Throughout the last financial year, the NIHR spent £1.3bn on domestic research, which is around 4.2% more than during 2022/23.
- Including overseas aid, the NIHR spent a total of £1.38bn – this was closer to £1.32bn last year.
Women die needlessly as NHS treats heart trouble as a man’s disease (paywall)
