Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 85960

Heart Diseases: Screening

Tabled: 28 October 2025

Answered: 4 November 2025

Question

Steve Darling

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will consider extending access to cardiac screening to people aged 14 to 35 who participate in sport.

Answer

Ashley Dalton

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

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