Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 13855

Kidney Diseases: Diagnosis

Tabled: 12 November 2024
Answered: 18 November 2024

Question

Luke Murphy

LabourBasingstoke

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve diagnosis of Chronic Kidney Disease for (a) younger patients and (b) broadly.

Answer

NHS England is working to detect people at risk of kidney disease through the NHS Health Check Programme. The programme, which is available for everyone between the ages of 40 and 74 years old, who is not already on a chronic disease register, assesses pe...

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