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Question follow-through · 13066

Prostate Cancer: Screening

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to ensure blood specimens taken for prostate specific antigen tests are separated within 16 hours.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
6 Nov 2024
Target answer date
11 Nov 2024
Answer
28 Nov 2024 · 22 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 6 Nov 2024

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to ensure blood specimens taken for prostate specific antigen tests are separated within 16 hours.

  2. 11 Nov 2024

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 28 Nov 2024

    Answer published

    Prostate specific antigen (PSA) testing volumes and the time taken for blood specimens to reach the laboratory for separation, including those within 16 hours, is not currently monitored by NHS England.The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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