Impact assessment

Lung cancer screening: equality impact assessment

Equality impact assessment for targeted screening for lung cancer.

• From: Department of Health and Social Care
• Published: 24 July 2025

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Equality impact assessment: screening for lung cancer

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The UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) recommends offering screening for lung cancer.

This equality impact assessment covers:

• background information about screening, and targeted lung cancer screening specifically
• discussion of the impacts of targeted lung cancer screening on the general public
• evidence of the impacts
• analysis of the impacts
• discussion of the engagement undertaken regarding implementation of lung cancer screening
• a summary of the analysis

Published 24 July 2025