Prostate Cancer: Health Services
Commons · Question 39201 · Tabled 18 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 28 Mar 2025
Question
Asked by Martin Wrigley
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 17 March 2025 to Question 36892 on Prostate Cancer: Health Services, if he will take steps to provide (a) faster and (b) wider availability for prostate-specific antigen t
Answer
Answered by Ashley Dalton, 28 Mar 2025
Routine Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) testing is not offered on the National Health Service, although men aged 50 years old or over can ask their general practitioner for a PSA test, even if they do not have symptoms. This applies to anyone aged 50 year...