Question follow-through · 56255
Breast Cancer: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time is for women aged over 50 to receive a mammogram.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 2 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 4 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 12 Jun 2025 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
2 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the average waiting time is for women aged over 50 to receive a mammogram.
4 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Jun 2025
Answer published
NHS England is committed to providing equitable access to breast screening services for eligible women aged 50 years old and over across the country, including in West London.In West London, women aged 50 to 70 years old are invited for breast screening e...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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