Bowel Cancer: Screening
Commons · Question 33884 · Tabled 26 Feb 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 17 Mar 2025
Question
Asked by Jim Shannon
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what discussions he has had with his counterpart in the Northern Ireland Executive on lowering the threshold for bowel screening to 50.
Answer
Answered by Ashley Dalton, 17 Mar 2025
The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) advises ministers and the National Health Service in the four United Kingdom nations about all aspects of screening. As screening is a devolved matter, it is then for each individual Government to decide on how...