Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 25646

Bowel Cancer: Screening

Tabled: 22 January 2025
Answered: 27 January 2025
Named Day

Question

Mr Gregory Campbell

Democratic Unionist PartyEast Londonderry

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing bowel screening for people aged over 74.

Answer

In the United Kingdom, national screening programmes are introduced based on the recommendations of the UK National Screening Committee, an independent scientific advisory committee which advises ministers and the National Health Service in all four count...

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