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Commons - Adjournment - Main Chamber
Crime in Birmingham, Edgbaston constituency
MP: Preet Kaur Gill
Written Question
Liver Diseases: Screening
Monday 13th May 2024

Asked by: Preet Kaur Gill (Labour (Co-op) - Birmingham, Edgbaston)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 27 February 2024 to Question 381 on Liver Diseases: Screening, where the 12 Community Diagnostic Centres planned to have fibroscans are located; and what further plans she has to roll out fibroscans by March 2025.

Answered by Andrew Stephenson - Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)

There are currently eight community diagnostic centres (CDCs) offering FibroScan testing, which are:

- Andover CDC in Andover, Hampshire;

- Bexhill CDC in Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex;

- Ely CDC in Ely, Cambridgeshire;

- Gloucestershire Quayside CDC in Gloucester, Gloucestershire;

- New QEII Hospital CDC in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire;

- Poole Dorset Health Village CDC in Poole, Dorset;

- St Helens CDC in St Helen’s, Merseyside; and

- Woking Community Hospital CDC in Woking, Surrey.

There are six additional CDCs planning to offer Fibroscan testing in 2024/25, which are:

- Bolton CDC in Bolton, Lancashire;

- Bradford District and Craven CDC in Bradford, West Yorkshire;

- Northern Care Alliance Oldham CDC in Oldham, Greater Manchester;

- Peterborough CDC in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire;

- Wisbech CDC in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire; and

- Wood Green CDC in Haringey, London.

In total, NHS England plans to have rolled out FibroScan testing to 14 CDCs by 2024/25, and continues to explore further rollout of Fibroscans by March 2025.


Division Vote (Commons)
9 May 2024 - Tobacco and Vapes Bill (Sixth sitting) - View Vote Context
Preet Kaur Gill (LAB) voted Aye - in line with the party majority and against the House
One of 5 Labour Aye votes vs 0 Labour No votes
Vote Tally: Ayes - 6 Noes - 8
Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 09 May 2024
Tobacco and Vapes Bill (Sixth sitting)

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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 09 May 2024
Tobacco and Vapes Bill (Sixth sitting)

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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 09 May 2024
Tobacco and Vapes Bill (Sixth sitting)

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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 09 May 2024
Tobacco and Vapes Bill (Sixth sitting)

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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 09 May 2024
Tobacco and Vapes Bill (Sixth sitting)

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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 09 May 2024
Tobacco and Vapes Bill (Sixth sitting)

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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Thu 09 May 2024
Tobacco and Vapes Bill (Sixth sitting)

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