PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Cancer: Health Services (23 February 2022)

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure all young people with cancer have someone with them throughout their cancer appointments and treatment.

Asked by:
Feryal Clark (Labour)

The latest National Health Service guidance ‘Living with COVID-19 Visiting healthcare inpatient settings during the COVID-19 pandemic: principles’ expects providers to facilitate visits wherever possible, while managing any associated risks. The guidance includes the relevant exceptional circumstances for inpatient visiting from a familiar carer/parent or guardian/supporter/personal assistant and both parents/guardians where the family unit can be maintained.

Teenage Cancer Trust and Young Lives vs Cancer produced the Hand2Hold guidance for young people visiting hospitals with cancer which has been distributed to all Cancer Alliances in England.

Answered by:
Maria Caulfield (Conservative)
22 March 2022