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1668515

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	date	08/11/2023
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Breast Cancer: Yorkshire and the Humber
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of rates of breast screening participation in Yorkshire.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
	tabling member printed	Gill Furniss
	uin	880
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2023 answer text <p>Data on screening participation in Yorkshire is collected and assessed yearly by NHS England. Data is collected on screening coverage, the percentage of women adequately screened in the last three and a half years, and uptake which shows the percentage of women invited who attended screening within six months of their invitation. The latest data, which is from 2020/21 for Yorkshire, shows that uptake was 61.4%, with coverage being 64.4%.</p><p>The national targets for uptake are as follows:</p><p>- Acceptable level: greater than or equal to 70.0%</p><p>- Achievable level: greater than or equal to 80.0%</p><p>The national targets for coverage are as follows:</p><p>- Acceptable level: greater than or equal to 70.0%</p><p>- Achievable level: greater than or equal to 80.0%</p><p>Data is published by NHS England and available at the following link:</p><p><a href="https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/breast-screening-programme/england---2020-21" target="_blank">https://digital.nhs.uk/data-and-information/publications/statistical/breast-screening-programme/england---2020-21</a></p> answering member constituency Lewes answering member printed Maria Caulfield question first answered 17/11/2023 09:55:32 answering member 4492 label Biography information for Maria Caulfield
	tabling member	4571 label Biography information for Gill Furniss

1668516

	registered interest
	date	08/11/2023
	answering body	Department of Health and Social Care
	answering dept id	17
	answering dept short name	Health and Social Care
	answering dept sort name	Health and Social Care
	hansard heading	Bowel Cancer: Screening
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the national bowel screening programme, when he plans to next review that programme; and whether he has plans to raise the acceptable and achievable bowel screening target thresholds in line with breast screening targets.
	tabling member constituency	Sheffield, Brightside and Hillsborough
	tabling member printed	Gill Furniss
	uin	881
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2023 answer text <p>The national bowel cancer screening programme in England is currently revising all standards and as a part of this process current thresholds will be reviewed. This review will consider the lowering of the screening age for bowel cancer from 60 to 50 years old.</p><p>The process for setting standards involves the meeting of experts as well as meeting with stakeholders and interested parties to ensure the standards are evidence based, acceptable and realistic. Full details on how these standards are set is available at the following link:</p><p>https://www.gov.uk/guidance/principles-of-population-screening/screening-standards</p> answering member constituency Pendle answering member printed Andrew Stephenson question first answered 16/11/2023 17:07:15 answering member 4044 label Biography information for Andrew Stephenson
	tabling member	4571 label Biography information for Gill Furniss