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Lord Winston (Lab)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 5 January 2026

Debate

Sudden Cardiac Death: Screening for Young People

Contribution

My Lords, does the Minister agree that the UK National Screening Committee is an excellent body doing a fine job of work? It is interesting that this is the third Question on screening we have had in the past two months of parliamentary work. What we see is that screening that is not focused is not only not valuable but risky because it causes a great deal of harm to perfectly healthy people. Will she point out that focused screening is what we need and that that requires considerable scientific endeavour? I think we are endeavouring to do that at the moment.

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