CANCER UK SCREENING MATTERS CAMPAIGN

Early day motion 948, tabled 18 February 2008 by Alan Meale (Labour). Signed by 86 members.

That this House is aware of Cancer Research UK's important new campaign, Screening Matters, which highlights the fact that thousands of women in Britain today are alive thanks to breast and cervical cancer screening they undertook; believes that the lives of many more men and women will be extended thanks to the new bowel cancer screening programme, provided greater numbers of eligible people are encouraged to participate; and calls upon the Government to issue strict guidelines to local primary care trusts on what is expected of them in respect of take up and frequency levels, the promotion of any new initiatives they may be introducing to increase participation and the plans they have to recruit and retain breast screening radiographers, radiologists and achieve the necessary accreditation of bowel screening colonoscopists.

Signatures by party: Labour 52, Liberal Democrat 14, Conservative 10, DUP 3, Social Democratic and Labour Party 3, Plaid Cymru 2, Independent 1, Scottish National Party 1.