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National Health Screening

Inquiry

The Science and Technology Committee launches an inquiry into the scientific merits of national health screening programmes. The inquiry will look at whether calls for health screening to be extended to cover conditions such as prostate cancer, lung cancer and post-natal depression are based on solid science.

Reports, special reports and government responses

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3rd Report - National Health Screening
Inquiry National Health Screening
HC 244
Report
Response to this report
Government response to the Committee's 3rd Report of Session 2014-15 (HC 244) on National Health Screening
Government Response

Oral evidence transcripts

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9 July 2014
Inquiry National Health Screening
Witnesses Jane Ellison MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health, Department of Health, and Professor David Walker, Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England, Department of Health
Oral Evidence
25 June 2014
Inquiry National Health Screening
Witnesses Owen Sharp, Chief Executive, Prostate Cancer UK, Professor Ian Cree, Yvonne Carter Professor of Pathology, Warwick Medical School, representing the Early Cancer Detection Consortium, Dr Hilary Burton, Director, PHG Foundation, and Professor Ian Jacobs, Director, PROMISE 2016; Dr Anne Mackie, Director of Programmes, UK National Screening Committee, Dr Kevin Dunbar, Director, National Chlamydia Screening Programme, Jamie Waterall, NHS Health Check National Lead, Public Health England, and Dr Sharon Hillier, Deputy Director of Screening Division, Public Health Wales.
Oral Evidence
11 June 2014
Inquiry National Health Screening
Witnesses Robert Meadowcroft, Chief Executive, Muscular Dystrophy Campaign, Professor Michael Baum, Professor Emeritus of Surgery, University College, London, representing Advocates for Honesty and Transparency in Breast Screening, and Steve Hannigan, Executive Director, Children living with inherited metabolic diseases (Climb); Síle Lane, Director of Campaigns, Sense About Science, Dr Margaret McCartney, and Dr John Middleton, Vice President for Health Policy, UK Faculty of Public Health
Oral Evidence
BMI Healthcare (NHS0054)
Department of Health (NHS0053)
European Scanning Centre (NHS0051)

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