Diseases: Screening
(asked on 20th April 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care what information his Department holds on levels of (a) breast cancer, (b) bowel cancer, (c) cervical cancer, (d) diabetic eye, (e) abdominal aortic aneurysm and (f) fetal anomaly screening in each year since those NHS screening programmes were introduced.
The National Health Service Breast Screening Programme began in 1988. Data on the levels of Breast screening from 2004 to 2016 is available at:
https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/breast-screening-programme
Data outside this time period are not available in the format requested.
The NHS Cervical Screening Programme began in 1988. Data on the levels of Cervical screening from 2004 to 2016 are available at:
https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/cervical-screening-programme
Data outside this time period are not available in the format requested.
The NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme started in 2006. Data for years 2016/17 are available in the following table. Data outside this time period are not available in the format requested.
NHS bowel cancer screening data for 2016/17
Indicator | Period | Rate for England |
Persons, 60-69, screened for bowel cancer within six months of invitation (Uptake, %) | 2016/17 | 57% |
Persons, 60-69, screened for bowel cancer in the last 30 months (2.5 year coverage, %) | 2016/17 | 57.4% |
Source: https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/search/cancer
The NHS Diabetic Eye Screening Programme began in 2007. Data for 2016/17 (by clinical commissioning group/region) are available here:
Data outside this time period are not available in the format requested.
The NHS Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Screening Programme started in 2009. Data on coverage for 2016/17 (by region) are available here:
https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/search/Abdominal%20aortoa#pat/15/ati/6/par/E92000001
Data outside this time period are not available in the format requested.
The NHS Foetal Anomaly Screening Programme began in 2001. Data for 2016/17 are available in the Annual KPI data: April 2016 to March 2017 document here:
A copy is attached. Data outside this time period are not available in the format requested.