Question follow-through · 22669
Prostate Cancer: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of a national screening programme for prostate cancer.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 8 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 13 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 13 Jan 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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More questions by this MP on Health and care
- Drugs and Pharmacy · 10 Jan 2025
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- Palliative Care: Training · 15 Jan 2025
- Palliative Care: Telephone Services · 15 Jan 2025
- Palliative Care: Finance · 15 Jan 2025
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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
8 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of a national screening programme for prostate cancer.
13 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Jan 2025
Answer published
Screening for prostate cancer is currently not recommended in the United Kingdom, due to the inaccuracy of the current best test Prostate Specific Antigen.A UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) review looking at whether to offer screening for prostate...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Drugs and Pharmacy
10 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential implications for his policies of (a) trends in the level of costs of medicines and (b) potential closures of community pharmacies.
Palliative Care: Health Professions
15 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of the number of palliative care specialists available in the care system.
Palliative Care: Training
15 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of training given to palliative care specialists.
Palliative Care: Telephone Services
15 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of a designated out of hours palliative care advice line in every region.
Palliative Care: Finance
15 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential benefits of allocating palliative care funding through a long-term centrally managed, ringfenced grant.
Social Prescribing
20 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the potential merits of social prescribing to treat medical conditions.
NHS: Pay
20 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he expects the next round of discussions between NHS pay review bodies and health unions.
Cervical Cancer
21 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help prevent cervical cancer.
Cervical Cancer: Screening
21 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help increase the number of cervical cancer screenings.
Heart Diseases: Young People
29 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to improve detection of undiagnosed heart conditions in young people.
Heart Diseases: Young People
29 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of expanding access to diagnostic (a) checks and (b) screenings to improve detection of undiagnosed heart conditions in young people.
Cardiovascular Diseases: Young People
29 Jan 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase awareness of (a) cardiac health and (b) physical activity increasing risk of strokes in young people in (i) schools, (ii) universities and (iii) sports facilitie