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P-04-668 Support Yearly Screening for Ovarian Cancer (CA125 blood test)
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Meeting: 29/03/2017 - Plenary - Fifth Senedd (Item 6)
Debate on the Petitions Committee Report on a Petition on Ovarian Cancer
NDM6276
Mike Hedges (Swansea East)
To
propose that the National Assembly for Wales:
Notes
Petitions Committee report on the petition, 'Support Yearly Screening for
Ovarian Cancer', which was laid
in the Table Office on 9 February 2017.
Note:
The Welsh Government's response
to the report was laid in the Table Office on 22 March 2017.
Minutes:
The item started at 17.02
NDM6276 Mike
Hedges (Swansea East)
To propose that the
National Assembly for Wales:
Notes Petitions Committee report
on the petition, 'Support Yearly Screening for Ovarian Cancer', which was laid in the Table Office on 9
February 2017.
The motion was
agreed in accordance with Standing Order 12.36.
Meeting: 17/01/2017 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 5)
5 P-04-668 Support Yearly Screening for Ovarian Cancer (CA125 blood test)
Supporting documents:
Meeting: 29/11/2016 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 5)
5 P-04-668 Support Yearly Screening for Ovarian Cancer (CA125 blood test) - Private Discussion under 17.42 (vi)
Supporting documents:
- Cover sheet, item 5 PDF 15 KB View as HTML (5/1) 6 KB
- 25.10.16 Corespondence - Minister for Social Services and Public Health to the Chair, item 5 PDF 237 KB
- 17.10.16 Correspondence - Ovarian Cancer Action to the Chair, item 5 PDF 186 KB
- 28.10.16 Correspondence - Cancer Research UK to the Chair, item 5 PDF 65 KB
- 03.11.16 Correspondence - Target Ovarian Cancer to the Chair, item 5 PDF 647 KB
Minutes:
The
Committee considered correspondence on the petition and agreed to draw together
the history of the Committee’s consideration of the issue and report to the
Assembly before closing the petition.
Meeting: 27/09/2016 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 4)
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Rebecca
Evans – Minister for Social Services and Public Health
Irfon
Rees, Deputy Director, Public Health
Dr
Rosemary Fox, Welsh Government
Supporting documents:
- Cover Sheet, item 4 PDF 15 KB View as HTML (4/1) 6 KB
- Research Brief , View reasons restricted (4/2)
- 26.09.2016 Correspondence - Minister for Social Services and Public Health to the Chair, item 4 PDF 179 KB
Minutes:
The
Minister answered questions from the Committee.
The
Minister undertook to write to the Committee with:
·
further
information about the percentage of false positive results returned from the
CA125 blood test;
·
the
cost of the awareness raising campaign for ovarian cancer run by Velindre in
March 2016: and
·
further
information about the cost of administering an individual CA125 test.
Meeting: 13/09/2016 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 4)
4 P-04-668 Support Yearly Screening for Ovarian Cancer (CA125 blood test)
Petitioner
– Margaret Hutcheson
Supporting documents:
- Cover Sheet, item 4 PDF 15 KB View as HTML (4/1) 6 KB
- Research Brief , View reasons restricted (4/2)
Minutes:
The
petitioner answered questions from the Committee.
The
Chair noted that the Minister for Social Services and Public Health was
scheduled to attend Committee on 27 September and the Committee agreed to write
to her to seek further details on the estimated cost for introducing screening
for ovarian cancer in Wales using the CA125 blood test.
Meeting: 12/07/2016 - Petitions Committee - Fifth Senedd (Item 4)
4 P-04-668 Support Yearly Screening for Ovarian Cancer (CA125 blood test)
Supporting documents:
- Coversheet, item 4 PDF 15 KB View as HTML (4/1) 6 KB
- 20.03.2016 Correspondence – Minister for Health and Social Services to the Chair, item 4 PDF 168 KB
- 08.07.2016 Gohebiaeth - y deisebydd at y Cadeirydd, item 4 PDF 2 MB View as HTML (4/3) 3 KB
Minutes:
The
Committee considered correspondence on the petition from the then Minister for
Health and Social Services and the petitioner and agreed to carry out a short
piece of work on the issues raised and to ask the Cabinet Secretary for Health,
Well-being and Sport and the petitioner to attend Committee in the Autumn term.
Meeting: 02/02/2016 - Petitions Committee - Fourth Assembly (Item 2)
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Supporting documents:
- Cover Sheet, item 2 PDF 15 KB View as HTML (2/1) 6 KB
- 08.01.2016 Correspondence - Minister for Health and Social Services to the Chair, item 2 PDF 107 KB
- 21.01.2016 Correspondence - Petitioner to the Chair, item 2 PDF 1 MB
Minutes:
The
Committee considered the petition for the first time and agreed to:
·
Write
to the Minister for Health and Social Services seeking his views on the
petitioner’s detailed questions and in particular, why immediate steps are not
being taken to introduce screening, given that the UK Collaborative Trial of
Ovarian Cancer Screening (UKCTOCS) has shown that an annual blood test may help
reduce the number of women dying from ovarian cancer by around 20%; and
·
Recommend
to the incoming Committee that they consider undertaking a short piece of work
on the issue.