| Heading: |
Bowel Cancer: Screening |
| Question ID: |
1794955 |
| UIN: |
46403 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-04-17 |
| 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: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of colonoscopy capacity for providing the bowel cancer screening programme. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-04-29 |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4981 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Ashley Dalton
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| Answering Member handle: |
AshleyDalton_MP
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@AshleyDalton_MP
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| Answer text: |
NHS England is assessing the potential impact of reducing the faecal immunochemical test (FIT) threshold for the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme from 120µg/g to 80µg/g. This is an ongoing assessment which includes evaluating and learning from early adopt... |
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| Answering body ID: |
17 |
| Answering body name: |
Department of Health and Social Care |
| Tweeted: |
true |