Question follow-through · 50948
Cardiovascular Diseases: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing coronary artery calcium scoring in routine NHS cardiovascular health checks.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 8 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 12 May 2025
- Answer
- 13 May 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
8 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of introducing coronary artery calcium scoring in routine NHS cardiovascular health checks.
12 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 May 2025
Answer published
The Department has made no assessment of the inclusion of coronary artery calcium scoring in National Health Service cardiovascular health checks.The NHS Health Check, a core component of England’s cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention programme, assess...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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15 Oct 2025 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help prevent ill health.
Maternity Services: Negligence
25 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the government plans to include representatives of families with a child harmed by maternity or neonatal negligence, and a representative of women harmed by maternity or neonatal negligence