Question follow-through · 49512
Community Diagnostic Centres: Blood Tests
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that a full blood count is (a) categorised as a core diagnostic service and (b) available at all community diagnostic centres.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 30 Apr 2025
- Target answer date
- 6 May 2025
- Answer
- 7 May 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
30 Apr 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to ensure that a full blood count is (a) categorised as a core diagnostic service and (b) available at all community diagnostic centres.
6 May 2025
Target answer date
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7 May 2025
Answer published
Blood tests, particularly full blood count (FBC) tests, are among the most commonly requested diagnostic investigations across primary and secondary care, and are readily available across all 27 National Health Service pathology networks. FBC tests play a...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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