Breast Cancer: Screening
(asked on 2nd February 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what estimate his Department has made of the total number of women who did not have a routine breast cancer screening as a result of the covid-19 outbreak.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 21st March 2022
NHS Digital published statistics on breast cancer screening programme in England for 2020/21 on 24 February 2022. In total, 1.19 million women aged 45 years old and over were screened in 2020/21, compared with 2.12 million in 2019/20. This is a decrease of 44.1% or 930,000 women.