Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 99739

Prostate Cancer: Screening

Tabled: 15 December 2025
Answered: 22 December 2025

Question

Jim Shannon

Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help avoid creating a single point of failure in PET-CT diagnostic services.

Answer

Karin Smyth
NHS England’s specialised commissioning function commissions positron emission tomography computed tomography (PET-CT) diagnostic services and is responsible for ensuring that there is sufficient capacity across England to meet planned demand. To avoid cr...
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