| Heading: |
Prostate Cancer: Screening |
| Question ID: |
1740082 |
| UIN: |
13066 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2024-11-06 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5198 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Chris Coghlan
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Chris Coghlan
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department has taken to ensure blood specimens taken for prostate specific antigen tests are separated within 16 hours. |
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false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2024-11-28 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
1506 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Andrew Gwynne
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| Answering Member handle: |
GwynneMP
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@GwynneMP
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| Answer text: |
Prostate specific antigen (PSA) testing volumes and the time taken for blood specimens to reach the laboratory for separation, including those within 16 hours, is not currently monitored by NHS England.The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |