Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that men are able to access early prostate tests.

The National Health Service Prostate Cancer Risk Management Programme (PCRMP) provides general practitioners and primary care professionals with information to counsel men who ask about prostate cancer and/or prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing. Men over 50 who decide to have a PSA test based on this information can do so for free on the NHS.

The PCRMP information pack was revised and updated in March 2016 and is available at the following link:

www.gov.uk/guidance/prostate-cancer-risk-management-programme-overview

The PCRMP has also produced information leaflets that healthcare professionals can use when discussing the test with eligible men, which are available at the following link.

www.gov.uk/government/collections/prostate-cancer-risk-management-programme-supporting-documents