Skip to main content

1-20 of 99 results for subject:Screening

Session X
1993-94

Type

House

Session

Year

Department

Member

More

Primary member

Answering member

Legislative stage

Legislation

Subject

More

Publisher


Show detailed: On Off
Results: 10 20 50 100
Sort by: Newest first Oldest first

What percentage of women have been screened for cervical cancer; and how many women have died from cervical cancer in each (a) FHSA, (b) district health authority and (c) regional health authority in each year since 1987 and in 1994 to date. - Including table.

Asked by
Baroness Primarolo (Labour)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
28 October 1994
Reference
248 c864W;248 c866-8W
House
House of Commons

What percentage of women between the age of 50 years and 64 years have been invited for breast screening in each year since 1990, by (a) district health authority, (b) FHSA and (c) region; and how many women were actually screened in each case. - Including table of regionally based...

Asked by
Baroness Primarolo (Labour)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
27 October 1994
Reference
248 c820-1W;248 c823W
House
House of Commons

If he will list the guidelines given to area health boards in setting limits on the length of time between breast lumps being detected by patients and being diagnosed as malignant or otherwise; and what are the time limits thereafter being set for operations to remove the lumps if malignant...

Asked by
Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Scottish Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
25 October 1994
Reference
248 c598W;248 c598-9W
House
House of Commons

What steps he is taking to increase resources available for the diagnosis and treatment of breast cancer in Scotland. - (holding answer 25 October 1994).

Asked by
Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Scottish Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
25 October 1994
Reference
248 c598W;248 c599-600W
House
House of Commons

If he will estimate the average time taken in each health board area in Scotland (a) to provide appointments to patients who detect breast lumps, (b) to diagnose whether or not the lump is malignant and (c) to operate if the lump is a tumour. - Inc table of waiting...

Asked by
Lord Kirkwood of Kirkhope (Liberal Democrat)
Answering body
Scottish Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
25 October 1994
Reference
248 c597-8W;248 c598W
House
House of Commons

What consultations he has had with purchasing health authorities in Wales with respect to the funding of a consortium to purchase medical genetic services.

Asked by
Rhodri Morgan (Labour)
Answering body
Welsh Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
20 October 1994
Reference
248 c312-3W;248 c310-1W
House
House of Commons

What consultations he has had with the chairmen of Welsh health purchasing authorities in relation to the need for integrated TB control programmes; and what arrangements he has made to ensure programmes achieve high immunisation uptakes and screening rates in areas of substantial immigration from high TB prevalence areas of...

Asked by
Rhodri Morgan (Labour)
Answering body
Welsh Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
19 October 1994
Reference
248 c249-50W;248 c247-8W
House
House of Commons

Lords statement on outcome of their review of wildlife sales controls in Great Britain. - Inc fact that have placed paper giving more about these proposals and background to them in Library.

Asked by
Lord Gainford (Conservative)
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
20 July 1994
Reference
557 c35-8WA
House
House of Lords

What considerations his Department is giving to cutting its health screening programme.

Asked by
Gwyneth Dunwoody (Labour)
Answering body
Department of Transport
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
19 July 1994
Reference
247 c85W
House
House of Commons

To comment on the progress of the Breast Self-examination Campaign.

Asked by
Baroness Primarolo (Labour)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
7 July 1994
Reference
246 c313W
House
House of Commons

What additional cancer screening programmes are presently under review; when those reviews are expected to be completed; and which agencies or people are carrying out the reviews.

Asked by
Jim Cousins (Labour)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
6 July 1994
Reference
246 c216W
House
House of Commons

If he will publish a table showing the average time that patients wait for the results of cervical smear tests in each health board area. - Ref to 237 c417-8W.

Asked by
Gordon McMaster (Labour)
Answering body
Scottish Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
23 June 1994
Reference
245 c296-7W;245 c295W
House
House of Commons

What procedures are used by Ayrshire and Arran Health Board to arrange appointments for women for breast screening; in what circumstances this is done without the patient's prior approval; whether this procedure is adopted by other health boards; and if Ayrshire and Arran Health Board has assessed the costs to...

Asked by
Brian H Donohoe (Labour)
Answering body
Scottish Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
16 June 1994
Reference
244 c658-9W
House
House of Commons

How much the National Health Service has spent on its breast screening programme in each of the last five years. - Inc figs. (Holding answer 14 June 1994).

Asked by
Brian H Donohoe (Labour)
Answering body
Scottish Office
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
16 June 1994
Reference
244 c659W
House
House of Commons

If existing guidance to hospitals or clinicians allows for vulvectomy and lymph node removal to be carried out in the absence of biopsy reports. - Clinical guidance is responsibility of professional bodies.

Asked by
Jim Cousins (Labour)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
26 May 1994
Reference
244 c297W
House
House of Commons

Lords debate on unstarred question on ways Government expect to improve diagnosis and surgical treatment of breast cancer and to avoid hazardous radiotherapy treatment.

Lead member
Lord Ironside
Answering member
Lord Rea
Department
Department of Health
Type
Questions for short debate
Date
26 May 1994
Reference
555 c912-42
House
House of Lords

What reasons underlay the decision not to refer to deaths caused by colorectal cancer in her paper the Health of the Nation; and how many deaths occurred in each of the last five years from this form of cancer. - Inc table.

Asked by
Barry Sheerman (Labour; Co-operative Party)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
23 May 1994
Reference
244 c30-1W;244 c31W
House
House of Commons

What plans she has for increased medical checks or medical screening on people subject to immigration control and travellers entering United Kingdom airports and ports for the detection of tuberculosis, cholera and typhoid; who will be subject to these measures; on what basis people will be chosen; what diseases or...

Asked by
Graham Allen (Labour)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
18 May 1994
Reference
243 c518W;243 c516W
House
House of Commons

How many laboratories report a smear test as cytology negative when no endocervical material has been seen on the slide. - Ref to 242 c64W.

Asked by
Baroness Primarolo (Labour)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
12 May 1994
Reference
243 c217W;243 c215W
House
House of Commons

How she proposes to respond to the Nuffield Council on Bioethics's Report, Genetic Screening: Ethical Issues; and if she will make a statement. - Ref to 238 c203W.

Asked by
Gerard Vaughan (Conservative)
Answering body
Department of Health
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Date
3 May 1994
Reference
242 c451W;242 c447W
House
House of Commons