Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 60803

Kidney Diseases: Screening

Tabled: 17 June 2025
Answered: 25 June 2025

Question

Clive Jones

Liberal DemocratWokingham

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of targeted screening for chronic kidney disease high-risk populations.

Answer

Ashley Dalton
The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) previously examined the evidence for a population screening programme for kidney disease in 2011 and recommended that a national screening programme should not be introduced. This was because, amongst other thi...

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