Petition · past parliament · Department of Health and Social Care

Fund routine prostate cancer screening tests for all men over 50

Closed 2,714 signatures

What the petition asks

The Government should provide funding to allow the NHS to offer an annual screening test for prostate cancer to all men over the age of 50 and from their local GP.
At the moment there's no screening programme for prostate cancer which could prevent men from dying from prostate cancer. In the UK 1 in 8 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer and over 11,500 died from it last year. Our wives and children need us. Let us get checked with the PSA blood test without having to agree this with our doctors.

Timeline

10 Dec 2020 Petition opened for signatures
10 Jun 2021 Closed to new signatures

Key facts

Signatures 2,714
Status Closed
Department Department of Health and Social Care
Opened 10 Dec 2020
Closed 10 Jun 2021

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.