Written questions

Prostate Cancer: Screening

Commons · Question 99738 · Tabled 15 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 14 Jan 2026

Question

Asked by Jim Shannon

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential impact of the UK National Screening Committee’s draft recommendation on prostate cancer screening on future demand for PSMA PET-CT imaging,

Answer

Answered by Ashley Dalton, 14 Jan 2026

The independent UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC), which is made up of leading medical and screening experts, advises ministers in all four nations of the United Kingdom on the evidence on screening. They have carried out an evidence review to look...