Cervical Cancer: Screening
(asked on 26th September 2019) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many and what proportion of women with a disability attended cervical cancer screening in the NHS in the last period for which information is available.
This question was answered on 1st October 2019
Information on how many and what proportion of women with a disability have attended cervical cancer screening through the National Health Service is not held centrally by NHS England.
The latest uptake figures for cervical cancer screening show that 71.7% of the eligible population, or 3.2 million women, were screened for cervical cancer in 2017–18.