Breast Cancer: Health Services
(asked on 1st September 2026) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether her Department has made an assessment of the adequacy of referral guidance for suspected breast cancer.
This question was answered on 21st September 2026
The Department has made no such assessment. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence keeps all its guidance under review and its guideline on the recognition and referral of suspected cancer was updated in April 2026. There are no current plans for a further update of the guideline, including a review of the age or family history criteria for urgent investigations.