Question follow-through · 5870
Prostate Cancer: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the National Screening Committee will next review the potential merits of screening for prostate cancer.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 4 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 9 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 9 Oct 2024 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
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Recorded timeline
4 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the National Screening Committee will next review the potential merits of screening for prostate cancer.
9 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Oct 2024
Answer published
The UK National Screening Committee’s (UK NSC) evidence review for prostate cancer screening is already underway, and plans to report within the UK NSC’s three-year work plan.The evidence review includes modelling the clinical cost effectiveness of severa...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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