Cancer diagnoses rising

Health and social care data

Cameron Roberts
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The Department of Health and Social Care’s Health Trends data has revealed that the prevalence of cancer and serious health conditions is on the rise.

The data showed that the number of people diagnosed with non-melanotic skin cancers has risen to 3.6% of the UK population (2.3 million) in 2023/24. This represents a rise from the pre-pandemic number of 3% 2018/19, this in turn is a sharp uptick from the 1.4% diagnosed in 2009/10. The data comes on the heels of a promise of "radical reform" for the NHS by Wes Streeting, secretary of state for health and social care. The speech, conducted at the Labour party conference, was based on a report conducted by Professor Lord Darzi, which highlighted how, among other failings, the NHS lagged be...

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