Results 1–20 of 500 for cervical screening in the 'Written Answers'

Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Human Papillomavirus: Vaccination (18 Mar 2024)

Maria Caulfield: The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) works closely with charities such as Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust and the Teenage Cancer Trust to develop resources to raise awareness and educate young girls and boys about the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine and related cancers. The UKHSA has helped develop education resources for schools called EDUCATE, co-developed with teenagers and the Health...

Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Cervical Cancer (13 Feb 2024)

Lord Markham: NHS England has developed an implementation plan to eliminate cervical cancer by 2040 and will work collaboratively with key partners including National Health Service regions, charities and third sector stakeholders, as well as learning from the approaches being taken across the devolved nations. NHS England’s plan covers activity for the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination and cervical...

Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Cancer: Screening ( 6 Feb 2024)

Kirsten Oswald: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of women who (a) have and (b) do not have multiple sclerosis attended (i) cancer screening appointments, (ii) mammograms and (iii) cervical screening appointments in each of the last five years.

Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Cancer and Public Health (30 Jan 2024)

Andrew Stephenson: My role as the Minister of State for Health and Secondary Care includes responsibility for major diseases including cancer, and for screening. In accordance with the NHS Public Health Functions Agreement (made under section 7A of the NHS Act 2006) NHS England is responsible for providing or securing the provision of breast, bowel and cervical screening programmes and other specified public...

Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Cervical Cancer: Screening (30 Jan 2024)

Daisy Cooper: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 23 January to Question 10306 on Cervical Cancer: Health Education, if she will make it her policy to provide smear tests for women aged 25 and younger who (a) request one and (b) are experiencing abnormalities.

Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Pathology: Digital Technology (26 Jan 2024)

Andrew Stephenson: Following the recommendation from the UK National Screening Committee to support the use of digital pathology in the National Health Service cervical, breast and bowel cancer screening programmes, NHS England are investing in and working with the Royal College of Pathologists in the on-going development of an online Pathology Portal. This digital learning platform will support trainees and...

Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Cervical Cancer: Screening (22 Jan 2024)

Taiwo Owatemi: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps she is taking to help increase the (a) accessibility of smear tests for working women and (b) coverage of cervical cancer screening in Coventry North West constituency; how many smear tests were provided by the NHS in Coventry North West constituency in each year since 2015; and what steps she is taking to help improve...

Written Answers — Northern Ireland Office: Southern Health and Social Care Trust: Cervical Cancer (17 Jan 2024)

Karin Smyth: To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whether he has had discussions with Health and Social Care Northern Ireland on its response to potential cervical screening errors at the Southern Health and Social Care Trust between January 2008 and October 2021.

Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Genito-urinary Medicine (12 Dec 2023)

Lord Markham: ...SHSs that best meet the needs of their local populations. This includes oral HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis, which has been routinely available in specialist SHSs since 2020. The National Chlamydia Screening Programme focuses on reducing reproductive harm of untreated infection in young women aged 15 to 24 years old. The programme has the secondary aims of reducing re-infections and onward...

Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Cervical Cancer: Screening ( 7 Sep 2023)

Tan Dhesi: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to make cervical smear tests more accessible for women with (a) newborn babies and (b) young children.

Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Health Services: Women ( 7 Sep 2023)

Anneliese Dodds: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether he has made a recent comparative assessment of the UK rate of (a) breast and cervical cancer screenings, (b) access to Hormone replacement therapy, (c) maternal mortality, (d) women's life expectancy, (e) women's confidence in healthcare provision and (f) time to diagnose (i) endometriosis and (ii) polycystic ovary syndrome...

Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Screening: Age (20 Jul 2023)

Lord Markham: All National screening programmes are introduced based on recommendations made by the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC). The UK NSC assesses and evaluates the evidence to offer screening when it will offer more good than harm. Screening age ranges are selected based on the range where the evidence supports that balance. The National Health Service breast screening programme invites...

Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Human Papillomavirus: Vaccination ( 6 Jul 2023)

Virendra Sharma: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the World Health Organisation scheme entitled Cervical Cancer Elimination Initiative, what recent estimate he has made of when (a) 90 per cent of girls will be fully-vaccinated with HPV vaccine before the age of 15, (b) 70 per cent of women will be screened with a high-performance test (i) before the age of 35 and...

Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Cancer: Screening (30 Jun 2023)

Helen Whately: Local NHS services have a duty to ensure that their services are as accessible as possible for their local populations and that any appropriate support is in place. An example is the cervical screening programme, which as well as being accessible through general practices is also accessible through sexual health services. In 2021, a national marketing campaign to improve uptake of cervical...

Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Cancer: Screening (30 Jun 2023)

Helen Whately: ...place. NHS England is working with stakeholders to develop new initiatives to support improvements in coverage and a reduction in health inequalities. This includes delivering the NHS breast cancer screening uptake improvement plan covering a range of initiatives including a pilot for the proactive follow-up of non-attenders and testing how invitations are sent. We are also working with...

Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Cancer: Screening (30 Jun 2023)

Helen Whately: NHS England is committed to improving the accessibility of the breast, bowel and cervical cancer screening programmes. Providers of NHS screening services are required to make reasonable adjustments to ensure that their services are accessible to disabled people. The Department and NHS England are working to set out actions to improve accessibility to and uptake of screening including...

Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Paramedical Staff: Training (24 May 2023)

Feryal Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of paramedics working in primary care undertaking cervical screening sample taker training.

Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Paramedical Staff: Training (22 May 2023)

Feryal Clark: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will take steps to update the NHS cervical screening programme guidance to allow paramedics to train as cervical screening sample takers.

Written Answers — Department of Health and Social Care: Breast Cancer: Screening ( 3 May 2023)

Neil O'Brien: The first phase of the digital transformation of screening programme, the Cervical Screening Management System (CSMS) is due to go live in November 2023. NHS England remains committed to the Digital Transformation of Screening programme and has been developing new timetables following the merging of NHS England and NHS Digital. Following the roll out of the CSMS system, the timeline for the...

Written Answers — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Bovine Tuberculosis: Disease Control (25 Apr 2023)

Mark Spencer: ...and other species is the accurate detection and removal of animals infected with the bovine TB bacterium Mycobacterium bovis (M. bovis) before they can spread the disease to other animals. The main screening test for TB in cattle in Great Britain is the single intradermal comparative cervical tuberculin (SICCT) test. This is commonly known as the tuberculin skin test, which is used...


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