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Cardiovascular Diseases: Screening

Commons · Question 54964 · Tabled 30 May 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 19 Jun 2025

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Asked by Andrew Snowden

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 22 May 2025 to Question 51548 on Primary Care: Lancashire, whether the pilot programme to screen patients for cardiovascular disease within optometry practices will take p

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Answered by Ashley Dalton, 19 Jun 2025

The optometry pilot is an NHS England programme. The pilot is not taking place in Fylde; in Lancashire and South Cumbria four areas are participating in the pilot which will run until September 2025 (Fleetwood in Wyre; Burnley in East Lancashire; Blackbur...