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Prostate Cancer: Health Education

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing a national awareness campaign on prostate cancer.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
13 Feb 2025
Target answer date
24 Feb 2025
Answer
28 Feb 2025 · 15 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 13 Feb 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 introducing a national awareness campaign on prostate cancer.

  2. 24 Feb 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 28 Feb 2025

    Answer published

    NHS England run Help Us Help You campaigns to increase knowledge of cancer symptoms and address the barriers to acting on them, to encourage people to come forward as soon as possible to see their general practitioner. The campaigns focus on a range of sy...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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