Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, when the UK National Screening Committee’s public consultation on prostate cancer screening will open.

The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) review for prostate cancer screening is currently underway. The evidence review will cover modelling the clinical effectiveness and cost of several approaches to prostate cancer screening. This will include different potential ways of screening the whole population from 40 years of age onwards and targeted screening aimed at groups of people identified as being at higher than average risk, such as black men or men with a family history of cancer.

This work is detailed and complex. Once the modelling and evidence review are complete it will be considered by the UK NSC. Subject to no further revisions being required, the UK NSC plans to hold a public consultation towards the end of 2025.

Further details of the UK NSC’s evidence review process is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-nsc-evidence-review-process/uk-nsc-evidence-review-process