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Department
Member
Winterton of Doncaster, Baroness (1)
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Dobson, Frank (1)
Answering member
Legislative stage
Legislation
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To ask the Secretary of State for Health which institutions in the NHS are responsible for surveillance of the accuracy and integrity of (a) breast and (b) cervical cancer screening arrangements.
To ask the Secretary of State for Health which institutions in the NHS are responsible for surveillance of the accuracy and integrity of (a) breast and (b) cervical cancer screening arrangements.
Asked by
Frank Dobson
(Labour)
Answered by
Baroness Winterton of Doncaster
(Labour)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
16 November 2005
For answer on
21 November 2005
Answered on
28 November 2005
[holding answer 21 November 2005]: Quality assurance in the national health service breast screening programme and the NHS cervical screening programme aims to maintain standards and continue improvement in the performance of all aspects of the programmes in order to ensure that women have access to a high quality service wherever they live. Quality assurance has always been a fundamental part of the programmes.Responsibility and resources for screening quality assurance rest with the Regional Directors of Public Health, who have all the necessary authority to secure quality assurance. Where necessary they are able to close screening units down which fail to meet national standards.The Government spends £8 million per year on quality assurance for the breast and cervical screening programmes. Eight regional quality assurance reference centres provide the service, overseen nationally by the NHS cancer screening programme.
Subjects
Cervical cancer; Breast cancer; Expenditure; NHS; Standards; Screening
Date
28 November 2005
Reference
440 c247W;440 c247W; 30475
House
House of Commons