Question follow-through · 22156
Urinary Tract Infections: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the NHS is taking to improve the accuracy of tests used by GPs to diagnose chronic urinary tract infections.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 6 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 10 Jan 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the NHS is taking to improve the accuracy of tests used by GPs to diagnose chronic urinary tract infections.
8 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Jan 2025
Answer published
Diagnostic tests for chronic urinary tract infections (UTIs), such as urinalysis and urine culture, are widely available across all pathology networks in England. Ensuring accurate diagnostic testing not only aids more effective identification of infectio...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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