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date	16/05/2024
answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
hansard heading	Breast Cancer: Screening
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of offering breast cancer screening to women going through early menopause.
tabling member constituency	Putney
tabling member printed	Fleur Anderson
uin	26776
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) currently recommends that all women aged 50 to 71 years old are invited for a breast screening every three years. The AgeX trial is looking at the impact of increasing or decreasing the screening age for breast screening, and the UK NSC will review its findings when they are available.</p><p>The UK NSC can be alerted to any new published peer reviewed evidence which may suggest the case for a new screening programme, or changes to an existing one. Proposals can be submitted via the UK NSC’s annual call in July 2024, which is available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-nsc-annual-call-submitting-a-screening-proposal/uk-nsc-annual-call-how-to-submit-a-proposal#:~:text=To%20submit%20a%20proposal%20for,your%20name" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-nsc-annual-call-submitting-a-screening-proposal/uk-nsc-annual-call-how-to-submit-a-proposal#:~:text=To%20submit%20a%20proposal%20for,your%20name</a></p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 21/05/2024 16:51:28 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
tabling member	4788 label Biography information for Fleur Anderson

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date	10/02/2016
answering body	Department of Health
answering dept id	17
answering dept short name	Health
answering dept sort name	Health
hansard heading	Postnatal Care
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if he will take steps to raise awareness among parents of the six-week postnatal check.
tabling member constituency	Cambridge
tabling member printed	Daniel Zeichner
uin	26776
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/02/2016 answer text <p>All pregnant women are informed about the mandated six week post-natal check by health visitors at their ante-natal visit (around 28 weeks of pregnancy) and at the post-birth review by the health visitor (at 10-14 days following delivery). At this time there is also a general practitioner check for both mother and baby.</p><p> </p><p>Public Health England’s Start4Life <em>Information Service for Parents</em> provides help and advice to encourage new and expectant parents to develop behaviours that support a healthy pregnancy and healthy start for children, including the maintenance of parental health.</p><p> </p><p>This subscription email and text service sends an email to all new subscribed mothers when their baby is five weeks old to advise them that their six week post natal check is due. The email includes a link to further online content – text and video - explaining what the check will cover.</p> answering member constituency Battersea answering member printed Jane Ellison question first answered 26/02/2016 12:37:05 answering member 3918 label Biography information for Jane Ellison
tabling member	4382 label Biography information for Daniel Zeichner