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Children and Young People Cancer Taskforce

Asked by Clive JonesLiberal DemocratDepartment of Health and Social CareTabled Answered 11 June 2025UIN 57148

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the membership is of the Patient Voice Panel as a part of the Children and Young People Cancer Taskforce; and what meetings it has held in the last 12 months.

Answered by Ashley Dalton

The Government is committed to including the voices of young cancer patients in the work of the taskforce and the National Cancer Plan. That’s why the Department has worked with taskforce members to assemble a Patient Experience Panel of people with lived experience of cancer. The panel is made up of a diverse group, including parents of children with cancer, young adults who were diagnosed with cancer as teenagers, and those who were diagnosed as children.

The panel has met three times so far, and will continue to feed directly into the work of the taskforce.

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