Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to ensure that the forthcoming roll-out of proactive lung screenings by NHS England in the Mansfield and Ashfield Clinical Commissioning Group area are accompanied with sufficient local resources to adequately deal with the potential increase in conditions that are diagnosed as a result of those screenings.

The NHS Long Term Plan Implementation Framework asks local systems to create five-year strategic plans to deliver the commitments in the plan. NHS England and NHS Improvement is working with the 14 clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) involved in the first wave of Targeted Lung Health Checks, including Mansfield and Ashfield CCG, to ensure they commission appropriate services for their population. This includes meeting any demand for diagnosing and treating disease where the programme identifies previously undiagnosed disease.