Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 54244

Heart Diseases: Diagnosis

Tabled: 22 May 2025
Answered: 5 June 2025

Question

Yasmin Qureshi

LabourBolton 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 Dalton
NT-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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