Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 54244
Heart Diseases: Diagnosis
Tabled: 22 May 2025
Answered: 5 June 2025
Question
Yasmin Qureshi
Labour — Bolton South and Walkden
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that NT-proBNP testing is implemented in Community Diagnostic Centres.
Answer
Ashley DaltonNT-proBNP is a well-established blood test used across the National Health Service in the detection of heart failure. All standard and large model community diagnostic centres (CDCs) are required to offer blood tests via a phlebotomy service, and the majo...
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