Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 100315

Prostate Cancer: Screening

Tabled: 16 December 2025
Answered: 14 January 2026

Question

Jim Shannon

Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of levels of access to PSMA PET-CT imaging on regional and ethnic inequalities in prostate cancer diagnosis and outcomes.

Answer

Ashley Dalton
The Department recognises that access to PSMA PET-CT imaging varies across England and that this may exacerbate existing disparities.NHS England has introduced a commissioning policy for PSMA PET-CT imaging for patients with high-risk or recurrent prostat...
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