Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 56046

Prostate Cancer: Screening

Tabled: 30 May 2025
Answered: 5 June 2025

Question

Cameron Thomas

IndependentTewkesbury

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of implementing a national screening programme for prostate cancer.

Answer

Ashley Dalton
The Department is guided on screening policy by the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC). The committee has commissioned a university to carry out a high quality review and to create a cost effectiveness model of the evidence for a national prostate c...

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