Question follow-through · 14422
Prostate Cancer: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support the national prostate cancer screening programme.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 14 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 18 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 20 Nov 2024 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: Amendment 1 · 8 Sept 2026
- Health Bill: Report Stage: New Clause 143 · 8 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
14 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to support the national prostate cancer screening programme.
18 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
20 Nov 2024
Answer published
There is currently no national prostate cancer screening programme. This is because it is not recommended by the UK National Screening Committees (UK NSC) due to the inaccuracy of the current best test, called the Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA). A PSA-ba...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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