Cancer: Screening
Commons · Question 43057 · Tabled 1 Apr 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 8 Apr 2025
Question
Asked by Jim Shannon
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many people are on the waiting list for cancer screening across the UK.
Answer
Answered by Ashley Dalton, 8 Apr 2025
There are no waiting lists for the three cancer screening programmes, bowel, breast or cervical, in England. Lung cancer screening, which is being rolled out nationally, does not have waiting lists either.Cancer screening is a devolved matter, and we do n...