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Prostate Cancer: Health Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 17 March 2025 to Question 36892 on Prostate Cancer: Health Services, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of the (a) time taken and (b) effectiveness of treatment

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body
Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled
18 Mar 2025
Target answer date
20 Mar 2025
Answer
28 Mar 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 18 Mar 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 17 March 2025 to Question 36892 on Prostate Cancer: Health Services, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of the (a) time taken and (b) effectiveness of treatment

  2. 20 Mar 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 28 Mar 2025

    Answer published

    Routine Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) testing is not offered on the National Health Service, although men aged 50 years old or over can ask their general practitioner for a PSA test, even if they do not have symptoms. This applies to anyone aged 50 year...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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Bacteriophages

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Unreviewed candidateSame MP and department; topic relationship is unreviewed

Bacteriophages

3 Apr 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will bring forward legislative proposals to introduce a magistral phage model to allow UK phages to be produced without requiring GMP licensing.

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