Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 114828

Oesophageal Cancer: Screening

Tabled: 23 February 2026
Answered: 5 March 2026

Question

Steve Barclay

ConservativeNorth East Cambridgeshire

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps the Department is taking to help raise public and clinical awareness of the BEST4 Screening trial and to support eligible patients to participate in capsule sponge testing for early dete

Answer

Dr Zubir Ahmed
The Department funds research and research infrastructure through the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The NIHR is funding the BEST4 trial with over £3 million funding contributed through the NIHR Health Technology Assessment Progra...

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