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Cancer

We want to help more people to survive cancer and support people in our region to live well with and beyond cancer.

Our Priorities

health and social care organisations working together to achieve world class cancer outcomes for our communities.

The Alliance’s vision, values, and priorities are embedded through its programmes of work:

  • Awareness and early diagnosis
  • Diagnostics
  • Treatment and pathways
  • Living with and Beyond Cancer

In collaboration with partners, stakeholders, and the public, the Alliance is working to transform cancer services and improve outcomes for patients across the area.

Humber and North Yorkshire Cancer Alliance

More people are surviving cancer than ever before, but we know that we can save even more lives by catching more cancers early and starting treatment fast. One in every two people in this country will be told they have cancer at some point in their lives.  

The NHS Long Term Plan aims to save thousands more lives each year by dramatically improving how we diagnose and treat cancer – our ambition is that by 2028, an extra 55,000 people each year will survive for five years or more following their cancer diagnosis.

This will include improving our national screening programmes, giving people faster access to diagnostic tests, investing in cutting edge treatments and technologies, and making sure more patients can quickly benefit from precise, highly personalised treatments as medical science advances.

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Featured Programmes

To view all of our programmes click here.

We want to create more efficient hospital-based services for people who need them, making the best use of the resources and workforce across our system to plan and deliver hospital care.

We want to help more people to survive cancer and support people in our region to live well with and beyond cancer.

We aim to ensure that people in our region are able to access advice, care and support in an urgent or emergency situation.

Working together to improve elective (planned) care locally is a key priority for the Humber and North Yorkshire Health and Care Partnership.

We want to create more efficient hospital-based services for people who need them, making the best use of the resources and workforce across our system to plan and deliver hospital care.

Climate change poses the most significant long-term threat to our health, not to mention our planet. The Greener NHS programme will work with staff, hospitals and our partners.