National Health Screening

Inquiry by the Science and Technology Committee (Commons), 13 December 2013 to 29 January 2015. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

3rd Report - National Health Screening (29 October 2014)
Government response to the Committee's 3rd Report of Session 2014-15 (HC 244) on National Health Screening (4 February 2015)

Evidence sessions

7 May 2014: Professor Jane Wardle, Professor of Clinical Psychology and Director of the Health Behaviour Research Centre at University College London, representing the Academy of Medical Sciences, Jessica Kirby, Senior Health Information Manager, Cancer Research UK, and Dr Sian Taylor-Phillips, Senior Research Fellow, Warwick Medical School, University of Warwick
11 June 2014: Robert Meadowcroft, Chief Executive, Muscular Dystrophy Campaign, Professor Michael Baum, Professor Emeritus of Surgery, University College, London, representing Advocates for Honesty and Transparency in Breast Screening, and Steve Hannigan, Executive Director, Children living with inherited metabolic diseases (Climb); Síle Lane, Director of Campaigns, Sense About Science, Dr Margaret McCartney, and Dr John Middleton, Vice President for Health Policy, UK Faculty of Public Health
25 June 2014: Owen Sharp, Chief Executive, Prostate Cancer UK, Professor Ian Cree, Yvonne Carter Professor of Pathology, Warwick Medical School, representing the Early Cancer Detection Consortium, Dr Hilary Burton, Director, PHG Foundation, and Professor Ian Jacobs, Director, PROMISE 2016; Dr Anne Mackie, Director of Programmes, UK National Screening Committee, Dr Kevin Dunbar, Director, National Chlamydia Screening Programme, Jamie Waterall, NHS Health Check National Lead, Public Health England, and Dr Sharon Hillier, Deputy Director of Screening Division, Public Health Wales.
9 July 2014: Jane Ellison MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Public Health, Department of Health, and Professor David Walker, Deputy Chief Medical Officer for England, Department of Health