Cancer strategy 2023 to 2033
This Cancer strategy for Scotland sets out our vision for the next ten years to improve cancer survival and provide excellent, equitably accessible care. It was developed in collaboration with people with lived experience and our wider partners.
Footnotes
1 Public Health Scotland (2021) Cancer Mortality in Scotland: Annual Update to 2020
2 Public Health Scotland (2021) Cancer Mortality 2019
3 The Scottish Government (2016) Person-centred care: guidance for nonexecutive directors. rep.
4 Learning Systems (2020) Ihub. Healthcare Improvement Scotland
6 Cytosponge (2023) NHS Inform. NHS Scotland.
8 Figure adapted from: Public Health Scotland (2023) Cancer Incidence in Scotland to December 2021
9 Figure adapted from: Public Health Scotland (2022) Cancer Incidence in Scotland To December 2020
11 Figure adapted from: Public Health Scotland (2022) Cancer Mortality: Annual Update to 2021
12 Cancer Research (2023) Cancer in the UK Scotland Overview. rep.
13 Cancer Risk Statistics (no date) Cancer Research UK.
15 ibid
19 Skin cancer (melanoma) symptoms and treatments (2023) NHS inform.
22 Public Health Scotland (2023) Cancer Waiting Times: 1 October to 31 December 2022
24 COVID-19 Wider Impacts on the Health Care System (no date) Public Health Scotland.
25 Public Health Scotland. (2021) What are Health Inequalities?
26 Cancer Research UK (2022) ‘Cancer in the UK: Deprivation and cancer inequalities in Scotland’.
30 Alma Economics and The Scottish Government (2022) Cancer Strategy. The Scottish Government.
Contact
Email: cancerpolicyteam@gov.scot
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