Sharon Hodgson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of expanding cervical screening visits to include a wider well-woman check for gynaecological cancers and other women’s health conditions.
Rosie Cooper: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when he plans to respond to the letter dated 9 February 2022 from the hon. Member for West Lancashire regarding cervical cancer screening, reference ZA58852.
Jim Shannon: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will make it his policy to increase the funding for smear testing on the NHS to help improve levels of early diagnosis.
Maria Caulfield: Alongside national screening programmes for breast, bowel and cervical cancer, diabetic eye screening and abdominal aortic aneurism, the NHS Health Check for adults in England for those aged 40 to 74 years old aims to identify early signs of stroke, kidney disease, heart disease, type 2 diabetes or dementia. The UK National Screening Committee has reviewed evidence for screening depression in...
Jonathan Gullis: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to increase the uptake of cervical cancer screenings in (a) Stoke-on-Trent and (b) Kidsgrove.
Caroline Nokes: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what his timeline is for the new cervical screening IT system going live, as a minimum viable product; and by what date will the schedule and contents of subsequent releases, including the expected scope of the system on completion, be ready.
Jo Churchill: ...frequency of mandatory surveillance testing throughout England’s High-Risk Area from annual to every six-months, with some exceptions for lower risk herds. The single intradermal comparative cervical tuberculin (SICCT) test, commonly known as the skin test, is used in routine and targeted TB testing, together with pre- and post-movement testing. It has a very high specificity, giving...
Maria Caulfield: NHS England and NHS Improvement’s ‘Help us help you’ campaign has raised awareness of key cancer symptoms. Three new awareness campaigns on cervical screening, prostate cancer and the barriers to patients seeking treatment for symptoms are running in the first quarter of 2022.
Maria Caulfield: ...to encourage more effective use of the NHS by encouraging people to get help in the right place at the right time and raise awareness of cancer symptoms. Three new awareness campaigns, tackling cervical screening, prostate cancer, and barriers to seeking treatment, will be launched over the next month. The phases of the campaign that have run to date have contributed to the high levels of...
Sharon Hodgson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the viability of yearly women’s health check-ups to help prevent the late diagnosis of gynaecological cancers.
Tan Dhesi: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential benefits of offering smear tests to patients who request them following a GP or nurse's approval.
Maria Caulfield: We welcome the findings of this study, which show the importance of the Human Papillomavirus vaccine in saving lives from cervical cancer. We encourage all teenage girls to have the vaccine when offered it. The vaccine programme, together with cervical screening, have the potential to reduce cervical cancer to the point where almost no women develop it. Fewer cervical cancers will...
Tan Dhesi: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to help improve cervical screening uptake in (a) Slough, (b) the South East and (c) England.
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to ensure that the NHS refers to "women" when sending out invitations for cervical screening, as proposed by the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care in his speech on 5 October.
Maria Caulfield: Public Health England (PHE) has published a leaflet advising both trans men and women to contact their general practitioner (GP) about breast screening, as long-term hormone therapy may increase their risk of developing breast cancer. The leaflet also advises that transgender men registered as male should ask their GP to update their records to ensure that they are invited for cervical...
Charlotte Nichols: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that trans men and non-binary people with a cervix are invited for routine cervical screening.
Lloyd Russell-Moyle: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that trans men and non-binary people with a cervix are invited for routine cervical screening.
Kim Johnson: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the implications for his policies of the recommendations for improving cervical cancer outcomes made in Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust's report, Computer Says No, published June 2018; and what steps he is taking to improve access to cervical cancer screening and treatment services.
Jo Churchill: Annual statistics for the three National Health Service cancer screening programmes are available online. The data for each of the last five years is reproduced in the following table: NHS Cancer Screening Programme (number of tests, millions) Year Bowel Cervical Breast 2015-16 2.41 3.13 2.16 2016-17 2.61 3.21 2.20 2017-18 2.53 3.22 2.14 2018-19 2.74 3.47 2.23 ...
Rosie Cooper: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment his Department has made of the potential merits of using digital cytology for cervical cancer screening programmes on (a) capacity and (b) resource flexibility.