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Prostate Cancer: Screening

Commons · Question 100316 · Tabled 16 Dec 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record

Answered 22 Dec 2025

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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 changes to PET-CT procurement in England on diagnostic access for patients from Northern Ireland who rely on specialist capacity e

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Answered by Karin Smyth, 22 Dec 2025

NHS England is in the process of reprocuring some positron emission tomography computed tomography (PET-CT) services to replace current contracts that are due to expire at the end of March 2027. The geographies covered by the existing contracts will conti...