Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 80029

Screening

Tabled: 10 October 2025

Answered: 20 October 2025

Question

Alex Mayer

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of asking the National Screening Committee’s to review the evidence on risk-stratified screening.

Answer

Ashley Dalton

The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) already consider risk stratification in screening programmes.Last year the National Health Service moved from annual diabetic retinopathy testing for all people over 12 years of age with diabetes, to every two ...

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