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 proportion of eligible adults who have received (a) abdominal aortic aneurysm, (b) bowel, (c) breast and (d) cervical screening in (i) Lambeth CCG (ii) Southwark CCG and (iii) England in each year since 2015.

Abdominal aortic aneurysm screening coverage for Lambeth Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG), Southwark CCG and England in each year since 2015/16 can be seen in the following table.

Abdominal aortic aneurysm screening coverage for Lambeth CCG, Southwark CCG and England, 2015/16 to 2017/18.

Notes:

1. Sources:https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/abdominal-aortic-aneurysm-screening-2015-to-2016-data

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/abdominal-aortic-aneurysm-screening-2016-to-2017-data

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/abdominal-aortic-aneurysm-screening-2017-to-2018-data

2. Total number of people screened is provided in brackets.

3. Coverage is the percentage of the eligible population that is successfully screened within the year plus three months:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/773136/NHS_AAA_screening_programme_standards_data_report_april_2017_to_march_2018.pdf

Bowel cancer screening coverage for Lambeth CCG, Southwark CCG and England is attached. Coverage for bowel cancer screening is defined as the number of persons registered to a general practice who are screened adequately in the previous 30 months, which is the routine period in which bowel cancer screening takes place for an individual, divided by the number of eligible persons on the last day of the review period for this report data is taken in April 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018. This captures the coverage for the eligible population over the standard period of time in which an individual should attend for a bowel cancer screening.

Breast screening coverage for Lambeth CCG, Southwark CCG and England is attached. Coverage for breast screening is defined as the number of women registered to a general practice screened adequately in the previous 36 months, which is the routine period in which breast screening takes place for an individual, divided by the number of eligible women on last day of the review period for this report data is taken in April 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018. This captures the coverage for the eligible population over the standard period of time in which a woman should attend for breast screening.

Cervical screening coverage for Lambeth CCG, Southwark CCG and England is attached. Coverage for cervical screening is defined as the number of women screened adequately in the previous 42 months (if aged 24-49) or 66 months (if aged 50-64) divided by the number of eligible women on last day of review period for this report data is taken in April 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018. This captures the coverage for the eligible population over the standard period of time in which a woman should attend for cervical screening.