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Schools and Universities: Sports

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to increase routine heart screening for young people participating in (a) school and (b) university sports.

answeredDepartment of Health and Social Care

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Answering body: Department of Health and Social Care
Tabled: 17 Apr 2025
Target answer date: 23 Apr 2025
Answer: 28 Apr 2025 · 11 calendar days after tabling

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17 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to increase routine heart screening for young people participating in (a) school and (b) university sports.
23 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
28 Apr 2025
Answer published
The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) last reviewed screening for sudden cardiac death (SCD) in people under the age of 39 in 2019 and concluded that population screening should not be offered. More information on the recommendation is available at...

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