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 14 March 2023 to Question 147423 on Heart Diseases: Screening, what the National Screening Committee's planned timeline is for the review of the screening programme for sudden cardiac death.

The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) has started work to look at screening for cardiac conditions associated with sudden cardiac death in the young, with work currently in the preliminary stages. A timeline of the review cannot be shared at this stage as work to scope and understand the type of review required remains to be defined. However, the UK NSC aims to keep stakeholders and members of the public informed of its work via its regular blog articles. In the meantime, the UK NSC encourages researchers and stakeholders to have their work in sudden cardiac death peer reviewed and published for the UK NSC to consider its findings.