Cancer awareness in North Lincolnshire

York St John University and Healthwatch North Lincolnshire undertook a survey of people across Humber and North Yorkshire, via phone interviews, online panels and an online survey of communities who are harder to engage with. The survey used the questionnaire developed by Cancer Research UK that they run nationally each year. Additionally, Healthwatch and voluntary organisations spoke to people who would not usually complete a survey (including people who were homeless and people with learning disabilities).  A total of 6,167 people across the region of Humber and North Yorkshire responded to the survey, including 668 who live in North Lincolnshire (10.8%), and there were 98 individual one-to-one conversations in total.

Respondents in North Lincolnshire had a slightly lower recall of using e-cigarettes/ vapes as a cancer risk factor. They were slightly more likely to have contacted their GP within six months of noticing any symptom (53% compared to 49% of all respondents) and were slightly less likely to more likely to have had a virtual/remote appointment (19% compared to 23%) rather than an in person appointment. They were significantly less likely to say that they were concerned about wrong decisions due to remote consultations (39% compared to 50%).