Question follow-through · 62510
Prostate Cancer: Blood Tests
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the merits of including PSA testing in routine NHS health checks.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 24 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 26 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 8 Jul 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the merits of including PSA testing in routine NHS health checks.
26 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
8 Jul 2025
Answer published
The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) has commissioned a university to carry out a high quality review and cost effectiveness model of the evidence for a national prostate cancer screening programme. This includes considering evidence that looks at...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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