Question follow-through · 62563
Heart Diseases: Screening
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to increase cardiac screening for people with a familial risk of sudden cardiac death.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 25 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 30 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 10 Jul 2025 · 15 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
25 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to increase cardiac screening for people with a familial risk of sudden cardiac death.
30 Jun 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Jul 2025
Answer published
The UK National Screening Committee last reviewed screening for sudden cardiac death in young people in December 2019. After carefully considering the evidence, the committee concluded that a screening programme in all young people under the age of 39 yea...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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