Gwent cancer survey asks residents to shape ten-year care plan
People across Gwent are being asked to help shape a ten-year cancer plan through a new survey from Aneurin Bevan University Health Board. The invitation, published on Friday 23 October, asks what would help people reduce their risk of cancer, spot it earlier and receive better care and support after diagnosis.
Gwent
- Plan horizon
- The next ten years
- Survey time
- Around five minutes
- Who can respond
- Direct cancer experience is not required
- Closing date
- Not given in the announcement
Who can take part
The board wants to hear from people who have had cancer, those who have supported someone with cancer, and anyone who wants to say what matters to them. Direct experience is not required. The online form includes Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Monmouthshire, Newport and Torfaen as location options, as well as outside Gwent and prefer not to say.
How to respond
The health board says the survey is anonymous and takes around five minutes. Its Microsoft Forms page says it does not automatically collect a name or email address unless the respondent provides one. Follow the survey link in the sources below, or open the health board’s announcement and select “Helping Us Build Cancer Confidence in Gwent”. The announcement does not give a closing date.
What happens next
Responses will help develop the Gwent Cancer Plan across prevention, early diagnosis, treatment, care and support. This is a request for views, rather than an announcement of a completed plan or a new treatment service.
Background and supporting figures
Where this sits
The invitation includes people without direct cancer experience as well as patients and those supporting them.
The plan spans the next ten years, while the survey takes around five minutes; the announcement is engagement, not approval of a completed service plan.