Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to improve breast cancer screening in (a) Lincolnshire and (b) South Holland and The Deepings constituency.

Nationally, NHS England has developed a national plan in collaboration with key stakeholders, such as cancer alliances, to improve uptake within the breast screening programme. The plan sets out the priorities, interventions, and the required monitoring of the impacts and outcomes to be achieved, to improve uptake through expanding access, data, and analytics, reducing inequalities, contracting, communication, and IT developments.

Locally, the Lincolnshire Integrated Care Board was awarded national funding in 2023 to establish an additional mobile screening unit. Additionally, local services are doing focused inequalities work with three practises identified as having lower uptake.