Question follow-through · 22262
Respiratory Diseases: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the number of spirometry tests carried out in Community Diagnostic Centres.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 7 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 9 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 13 Jan 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the number of spirometry tests carried out in Community Diagnostic Centres.
9 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Jan 2025
Answer published
NHS England continues to support the restoration of local spirometry services and is enhancing capacity through community diagnostic centres (CDCs). Spirometry tests are a minimum core test required of all standard or large CDCs. The Department does not c...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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