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1433507

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date	21/02/2022
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	Cervical 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 he will make it his policy to increase the funding for smear testing on the NHS to help improve levels of early diagnosis.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	126634
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 26/04/2022 answer text <p>Unlike other National Health Service screening services, the NHS Cervical Screening Programme in England is a preventative programme which tests for abnormal cells which, if left untreated, could develop into cervical cancer. Cervical screening is an essential service as part of the General Practitioner (GP) contract and funding is awarded through the Quality Outcome Framework (QOF). The QOF points for cervical screening were doubled in 2020 to restore cervical screening levels. Practices were asked to identify those patients whose appointment may have been delayed or cancelled due to COVID-19 and ensure they were offered an appointment.</p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 26/04/2022 14:02:49 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1225777

registered interest
date	16/07/2020
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	Cervical 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, what steps he is taking to address the number of cervical smear tests delayed following the covid-19 outbreak.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	75315
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/08/2020 answer text <p>NHS England and NHS Improvement are aware that in some areas, providers of NHS Cervical Screening Programme services have, for operational reasons and to minimise risk to patients during the coronavirus pandemic, rescheduled invitations or appointments to a later date. NHS England and NHS Improvement are working with service providers to reschedule screening invitations as soon as possible, whilst ensuring this is managed safely for patients and staff.</p><p>General practitioners are reviewing their records to identify individuals who were unable to have a cervical screening appointment during the response to the pandemic and are now inviting those individuals to attend.</p> answering member constituency Bury St Edmunds answering member printed Jo Churchill question first answered 11/08/2020 19:28:19 answering member 4380 label Biography information for Jo Churchill
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1127668

registered interest
date	20/05/2019
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	Cervical 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, when the urine test for cervical cancer will be adopted by the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	256410
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/05/2019 answer text <p>There are currently no plans to adopt urine testing into the National Health Service Cervical Screening Programme (NHS CSP), the United Kingdom National Screening Committee (UK NSC) has not been asked to assess the evidence for urine testing against its criteria.</p><p>Proposals for any major modifications to an existing screening programme, such as a move to offer urine testing as the primary screen test in the NHS CSP would require a formal submission to the UK NSC as per its published review process. Proposals for modifications are accepted by the UK NSC throughout the year. More information can be found at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-nsc-evidence-review-process/appendix-d-how-to-submit-a-proposal-to-the-uk-nsc" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-nsc-evidence-review-process/appendix-d-how-to-submit-a-proposal-to-the-uk-nsc</a></p> answering member constituency South Ribble answering member printed Seema Kennedy question first answered 29/05/2019 11:18:51 answering member 4455 label Biography information for Seema Kennedy
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1105315

registered interest
date	26/03/2019
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	Cervical 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, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of people being able to self-refer for a smear test in a local sexual health clinic.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	237191
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/04/2019 answer text <p>The United Kingdom National Screening Committee has made no assessment of the evidence to offer self-referral as part of the National Health Service cervical screening programme. The programme is working with contraception and sexual health clinics to support women who attend for their routine cervical screening, which is offered by some local authorities.</p> answering member constituency Gosport answering member printed Caroline Dinenage question first answered 02/04/2019 15:40:52 answering member 4008 label Biography information for Dame Caroline Dinenage
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1037085

registered interest
date	07/01/2019
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	Cervical 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, what steps he is taking to introduce an epigenetics-based test for cervical cancer on the NHS.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	205920
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>The United Kingdom National Screening Committee (UK NSC) has not reviewed the evidence for an epigenetics-based test within the cervical screening programme.</p><p> </p><p>It is important that any screening test introduced into a screening programme is based on robust published peer reviewed evidence demonstrating more good than harm. A change to the main screen test such as using epigenetics-based testing would be considered as a major programme modification to the cervical screening programme.</p><p> </p><p>Submissions to the UK NSC to consider a programme modification can be submitted throughout the year with more information available at the following link:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-nsc-evidence-review-process" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-nsc-evidence-review-process</a></p><p> </p><p>NHS England is currently working to implement primary human papillomavirus screening in England.</p> answering member constituency Winchester answering member printed Steve Brine question first answered 15/01/2019 12:11:45 answering member 4067 label Biography information for Steve Brine
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon

1037122

registered interest
date	07/01/2019
answering body	Women and Equalities
answering dept id	31
answering dept short name	Women and Equalities
answering dept sort name	Women and Equalities
hansard heading	Cervical Cancer: Screening
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Minister for Women and Equalities, if she will hold discussions with the Secretary of State for Health on making the NHS cervical screening programme available to women aged 18 years and over.
tabling member constituency	Strangford
tabling member printed	Jim Shannon
uin	205928
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 15/01/2019 answer text <p>The best independent evidence shows that routine screening of women under 25 actually does more harm than good. Cervical cancer in women under the age of 25 is very rare and younger women often undergo natural and harmless changes in the cervix that screening would identify as abnormalities, resulting in many false negatives.</p><p>We offer vaccination to girls to protect against the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) which protects against 70 per cent of cervical cancers and which is expected to reduce the already low rates of cervical cancer in these young women and allow them to be protected for years to come.</p><p>Young women with symptoms of cervical cancer, largely unusual bleeding particularly after sex, should see their GP and be referred to a gynecologist if clinically appropriate.</p><p>My Rt Hon Friend the Minister for Women and Equalities has no plans to discuss this issue with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care<em>.</em></p> answering member constituency Louth and Horncastle answering member printed Victoria Atkins question first answered 15/01/2019 17:39:22 answering member 4399 label Biography information for Victoria Atkins
tabling member	4131 label Biography information for Jim Shannon