| Heading: |
Prostate Cancer: Screening |
| Question ID: |
1816418 |
| UIN: |
62568 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-25 |
| Asking Member ID: |
1506 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Andrew Gwynne
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| Asking Member handle: |
GwynneMP
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
@GwynneMP
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential impact of offering prostate cancer screening to men considered to be at high risk on (a) NHS costs and (b) health outcomes. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-07-10 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4981 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Ashley Dalton
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| Answering Member handle: |
AshleyDalton_MP
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@AshleyDalton_MP
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| Answer text: |
The Department is guided on screening policy by the UK National Screening Committee. The committee has commissioned a university to carry out a high quality review and cost effectiveness model of the evidence for a national prostate cancer screening progr... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |