Breast Cancer: Screening
Commons · Question 11918 · Tabled 30 Oct 2024 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 6 Nov 2024
Question
Asked by Rosena Allin-Khan
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of increasing the (a) acceptable and (b) achievable levels of S07b incident screenings for mammograms.
Answer
Answered by Andrew Gwynne, 6 Nov 2024
As part of the NHS Breast Screening Programme, S07b is the ‘screening standard’ whereby ‘incident screens’, that is any subsequent breast screen after first screen, are referred for further assessment.NHS England has advised that there is expected to be a...