questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what assessment he has made of the potential merits of using the NHS Lung Cancer Screening Programme to improve the earlier diagnosis of chronic respiratory diseases, including COPD.
answerText: The NHS Lung Cancer Screening Programme is designed to detect lung cancer at an earlier stage in people at high risk of developing the disease.The Government is advised on all screening matters by the independent UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC). ...
heading: Lung Cancer: Screening