| Heading: |
Colonoscopy: Older People |
| Question ID: |
1745551 |
| UIN: |
16856 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2024-11-28 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5207 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Clive Jones
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Clive Jones
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| Member interest: |
true |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment his Department has made of the adequacy of the capacity of colonoscopy services; and whether his Department plans to increase the capacity of these services ahead of the exte |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2024-12-02 |
| 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: |
NHS England is responsible for delivering the NHS Bowel Cancer Screening programme and planning for the age extension in the programme from 60 years old down to 50 years old.The age extension for bowel screening started in April 2021 with the 56-year-old ... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |