Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 22262
Respiratory Diseases: Screening
Tabled: 7 January 2025
Answered: 13 January 2025
Question
Jim Shannon
Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the number of spirometry tests carried out in Community Diagnostic Centres.
Answer
NHS England continues to support the restoration of local spirometry services and is enhancing capacity through community diagnostic centres (CDCs). Spirometry tests are a minimum core test required of all standard or large CDCs. The Department does not c...
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