Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the NHS Long Term Plan, what the timeframe is for the introduction of lung health checks in Southampton Care Commissioning Group.

Local areas are beginning to work up plans for the implementation of lung health checks in their area, and funding has been made available to enable projects to start in 2019-20. Total costs are just under £70 million and will pay for nurses, radiographers and radiologists to provide lung health check appointments and low dose computed tomography (CT) scans.

In the ten initial roll-out sites which include Wessex Cancer Alliance (Southampton Care Commissioning Group) there are approximately 600,000 eligible patients, who between them will require a total of 200,000 CT scans.