Geentics: Screening

(asked on 3rd November 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what plans they have to integrate multi-condition genetic risk scoring for high-impact conditions into the NHS prevention framework in order to achieve measurable reductions in disease prevalence and healthcare costs.


Answered by
Baroness Merron Portrait
Baroness Merron
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 18th November 2025

The National Health Service, in partnership with Our Future Health, will trial the use of Integrated Risk Scores, which combine genomic, lifestyle, and health data, within the newly announced neighbourhood health services. Initially focused on cardiovascular disease and diabetes, the programme will expand to includes breast, bowel, and prostate cancer, with other diseases such as glaucoma, osteoporosis, and dementia under consideration. This marks a major step toward routine genetic testing in preventive care, enabling earlier and more personalised interventions.

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