Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the take-up rate was for breast cancer screening in (a) Coventry, (b) the West Midlands and (c) England in each of the last five years.
NHS Digital publishes information about the coverage of breast screening. Breast screening coverage for the last five year period for Coventry, West Midlands and England is shown in the following table:
| 31 March 2014 (%) | 31 March 2015 (%) | 31 March 2016 (%) | 31 March 2017 (%) | 31 March 2018 (%) | 31 March 2019 (%) |
Coventry | 71.9 | 71.7 | 72.2 | 70.7 | 70.1 | 69.9 |
West Midlands | 76.5 | 76.0 | 75.8 | 75.2 | 74.3 | 74.2 |
England | 75.9 | 75.4 | 75.5 | 75.4 | 74.9 | 74.6 |
Notes:
Coverage is the proportion of women eligible for screening who have had a test with a recorded result at least once in the previous 36 months. This is reported as a percentage.