Eye Cancer: Health Services

The National Health Service is committed to ensuring that cancer patients have access to personalised care, including a needs assessment, a care plan, and health and wellbeing information and support, as outlined in the NHS Long Term Plan. Personalised care ensures that each person’s care is planned holistically, covering mental and physical health as well as any practical or financial concerns. The NHS is supporting adults experiencing cancer with access to psychosocial support, which can include NHS Talking Therapy services, which provide evidence-based psychological therapies for people with anxiety disorders and depression.

Improving outcomes for rarer cancers, including ocular melanoma, is an area of focus for the National Cancer Plan for England, which will seek to improve both the physical and mental health aspects of cancer care. The plan’s overarching goal will be to reduce the number of lives lost to cancer over the next ten years.

To understand how we can do more to achieve our ambitions for cancer in England, on 4 February 2025 we launched a Call for Evidence for the National Cancer Plan, in which the views of people across the country will inform our plan to improve cancer care, including for rarer cancers. Those who wish to share their views can do so on the new online platform, which is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/calls-for-evidence/shaping-the-national-cancer-plan

The Department is committed to working closely with the devolved administrations on health matters to share best practice and deliver better outcomes for patients across the United Kingdom. The devolved administrations’ Phase 1 Spending Review settlements for 2025/26 are the largest, in real terms, of any settlements since devolution. The allocation of these settlements is the responsibility of the devolved administrations.