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Cancer: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to improve attendance at cancer screening appointments.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
4 Oct 2024
Target answer date
8 Oct 2024
Answer
14 Oct 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 4 Oct 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to improve attendance at cancer screening appointments.

  2. 8 Oct 2024

    Target answer date

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  3. 14 Oct 2024

    Answer published

    There are currently three fully rolled out National Health Service cancer screening programmes: bowel; breast; and cervical. Lung cancer screening is also a formal programme, but is yet to be fully rolled out.Bowel cancer screening has already introduced ...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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Possible follow-up questions

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Health Services: Women

13 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the provision of health services for women.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Dental Services

25 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the population per NHS dentist was in each (a) integrated care board and (b) local authority area in England in each year since 2010.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Dental Services

25 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the registration rate per NHS dentist was in each (a) integrated care board and (b) local authority area in England in each year since 2010.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Dental Services: Tees Valley

25 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many registered dentists were serving NHS patients in the (a) Middlesbrough and (b) Stockton-on-Tees local authority area in each year since 2010.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Dental Services: Tees Valley

25 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many individuals were registered with an NHS dentist in the (a) Middlesbrough and (b) Stockton-on-Tees local authority area in each year since 2010.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Dental Services: Tees Valley

25 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many individuals were seen by an NHS dentist in the (a) Middlesbrough and (b) Stockton-on-Tees local authority area in each year since 2010.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Dental Services: Tees Valley

25 Nov 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many courses of dental treatment were delivered by an NHS dentist in the (a) Middlesbrough and (b) Stockton-on-Tees local authority area in each year since 2010 by treatment band.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Brain: Injuries

2 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of people aged (a) 14-17, (b) 18-25 and (c) 26 and over who enter prison custody receive a screening for previously acquired brain injury within 24 hours.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Brain: Injuries

2 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of people aged (a) 14-17, (b) 18-25 and (c) 26 and over who enter prison custody receive an assessment for previously acquired brain injury within seven days.

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Brain: Injuries

2 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of people aged (a) 14-17, (b) 18-25 and (c) 26 and over who enter prison custody and are screened for brain injury within 24 hours are found to have an acquired brain i

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Brain: Injuries

2 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of people aged (a) 14-17, (b) 18-25 and (c) 26 and over who enter prison custody and are assessed for brain injury within seven days are found to have an acquired brain

Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Brain: Injuries

2 Dec 2024 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what guidance is available for healthcare professionals in prisons for dealing with people entering custody found to have a previously acquired brain injury.