Question follow-through · 21640
Heart Diseases: Young People
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of rolling out cardiac screening to young people.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 3 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 8 Jan 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill: Second Reading · 11 Sept 2026
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Recorded timeline
3 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of rolling out cardiac screening to young people.
8 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Jan 2025
Answer published
The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) last reviewed screening for sudden cardiac death (SCD) in people under 39 years old in 2019 and concluded that screening should not be offered. More information on the review is available at the following link:...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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