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Prostate Cancer

Volume 489: debated on Friday 13 March 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) what steps the NHS Screening Programme will take to inform GPs about the prostate cancer risk management programme; (263371)

(2) when he expects the revised prostate cancer risk management programme to be published;

(3) what plans he has to (a) monitor and (b) evaluate the use of the revised prostate cancer risk management programme by GPs.

A comprehensive strategy has been developed to inform general practitioners (GPs) of the revised prostate cancer risk management programme (PCRMP) when it is relaunched in summer 2009. This includes:

a medical press launch;

proactive educational programmes;

development of a slide set;

a road show using the slide set, co-ordinated by the British Association of Urological Surgeons;

a web cast;

making the PCRMP materials available on GP information technology systems;

a peer reviewed paper in a peer reviewed journal; and

a British Medical Journal e-learning module.

The Cancer Research UK Primary Care Education Research Group will undertake a detailed evaluation of the use and effectiveness of the revised PCRMP packs, as they did with the original packs.