Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 12566

Kidney Diseases: Screening

Tabled: 4 November 2024
Answered: 8 November 2024

Question

Alicia Kearns

ConservativeRutland and Stamford

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to increase uptake of early screening interventions for chronic kidney disease.

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 are not already on a chronic disease register, assesses pe...

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