Bowel Cancer: Screening
Commons · Question 25646 · Tabled 22 Jan 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 27 Jan 2025
Question
Asked by Gregory Campbell
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of introducing bowel screening for people aged over 74.
Answer
Answered by Andrew Gwynne, 27 Jan 2025
In the United Kingdom, national screening programmes are introduced based on the recommendations of the UK National Screening Committee, an independent scientific advisory committee which advises ministers and the National Health Service in all four count...