Question follow-through · 46003
Prostate Cancer
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve (a) access to prostate cancer screening and (b) waiting times for prostate cancer treatment.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 17 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 23 Apr 2025
- Answer
- 24 Apr 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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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
17 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve (a) access to prostate cancer screening and (b) waiting times for prostate cancer treatment.
23 Apr 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
24 Apr 2025
Answer published
The Government understands that more needs to be done to improve outcomes for all patients with prostate cancer. Currently, the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) does not recommend a national prostate cancer screening programme due to the limitatio...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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