Cancer: Screening

(asked on 18th August 2021) - View Source
Questioner
Rachael Maskell Portrait
Rachael Maskell
(Labour (Co-op) - York Central)

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate he has made of the number of cancer screening tests that have taken place for each type of cancer in each of the last five years.

Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 8th September 2021

Annual statistics for the three National Health Service cancer screening programmes are available online. The data for each of the last five years is reproduced in the following table:

NHS Cancer Screening Programme (number of tests, millions)

Year

Bowel

Cervical

Breast

2015-16

2.41

3.13

2.16

2016-17

2.61

3.21

2.20

2017-18

2.53

3.22

2.14

2018-19

2.74

3.47

2.23

2019-20

2.81

3.23

2.12

Source: www.digital.nhs.uk, https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-screening-programmes-annual-report, https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/nhs-population-screening-programmes-kpi-reports

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