Bowel Cancer: Screening

(asked on 21st September 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many screenings for bowel cancer have taken place in the NHS, as part of the NHS Bowel Screening Programme, in each month since April 2019.


Answered by
Jo Churchill Portrait
Jo Churchill
Minister of State (Department for Work and Pensions)
This question was answered on 10th November 2020

Monthly data is not centrally available, but data on participation and coverage for bowel cancer screening is published on a quarterly basis.

The proportion of eligible men and women aged 60 to 74 years invited to participate in bowel cancer screening who adequately participated since April 2019 (Q1) is as follows:

2019-20

Q1

62.1%

Q2

67.5%

Q3

64.5%

Full quarterly data is available at the following link:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nhs-screening-programmes-kpi-reports-2019-to-2020

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