Bowel Cancer: Screening
(asked on 17th March 2021) - View Source
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 for bowel cancer screening was in (a) Coventry North East constituency and (b) Coventry in each of the last five years; and what assessment he has made of the effect of the covid-19 outbreak on the up-take rate in those areas.
Bowel screening data is not collected at constituency level. The coverage rate, or the percentage of the eligible population who are screened, for bowel screening in Coventry in each of the last five years is shown in the following table.
Year | Coverage rate |
2016 | 57.0% |
2017 | 56.4% |
2018 | 55.7% |
2019 | 55.5% |
2020 | 59.2% |
Up-take data, or the percentage of those invited who are screened, covering 2020/21 and the impact of COVID-19 pandemic is undergoing validation and will be published in due course.