Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 11918

Breast Cancer: Screening

Tabled: 30 October 2024

Answered: 6 November 2024

Named Day

Question

Dr Rosena Allin-Khan

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of increasing the (a) acceptable and (b) achievable levels of S07b incident screenings for mammograms.

Answer

As part of the NHS Breast Screening Programme, S07b is the ‘screening standard’ whereby ‘incident screens’, that is any subsequent breast screen after first screen, are referred for further assessment.NHS England has advised that there is expected to be a...

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