Cancer screening coverage

What this data shows:

This shows the number out of two cancer screening programmes that have achieved coverage targets

How the data is gathered:

This shows for how many of two cancer screening programmes, the coverage target has been achieved. The cancer screening programmes are the national breast screening programme, and the national cervical screening programme.

Local authorities are rated according to how the values for the screening indicators compare. Comparisons are with local authorities of similar socioeconomic status. Upper tier local authorities are allocated to ten groups according to their index of multiple deprivation, allowing their indicator values to be compared with 14 others that have similar socioeconomic status. Green denotes values that are statistically significantly better than the average for areas within the same deprivation group. This composite indicator denotes how many of the screening indicators this area is rated green on – for example if an area was “green” for breast screening but not cervical screening would be rated as “1 out of 2”.

Data Source:

Health and Social Care Information Centre (Open Exeter)/Public Health England.

Data Period:

Annual 2017

Further Information:

For further information please see Indicator 2.20i at www.phoutcomes.info