Prostate Cancer: Screening
Commons · Question 90917 · Tabled 13 Nov 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 20 Nov 2025
Question
Asked by Darren Paffey
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the feasibility of introducing a national risk-stratified screening programme for prostate cancer.
Answer
Answered by Ashley Dalton, 20 Nov 2025
The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC), which advises ministers on all screening matters, commissioned an evidence review modelling the clinical effectiveness and cost of several approaches to prostate cancer screening. This included different poten...