Publication, Part of Cervical Screening (Annual)
Cervical Screening Programme, England - 2023-2024 [NS]
Official statistics, National statistics, Accredited official statistics
Summary for 2023-2024
Programme summary
Call & recall
In 2023-2024:
Coverage for ages 25 to 64 years was 68.8%.
Cervical screening
In 2023-2024:
3.25 million samples were tested.
(ages 25-64 years)
Colposcopy
In 2023-2024:
251,251 individuals were referred for colposcopy.
(all ages, all referral reasons)
This publication presents information about the NHS Cervical Screening Programme (‘the programme’) in England in the year 2023-2024.
Individuals between the ages of 25* and 64 are invited for regular cervical screening under the programme, the intent of which is to detect abnormalities within the cervix that could, if undetected and untreated, develop into cervical cancer. Individuals outside of this age group may also be assessed by the programme if they require follow-up testing after previous abnormal screening, or if they had not had an adequate test since their 60th birthday.
The statistics presented cover the following topic areas in the cervical screening programme:
- Call and recall
- Cervical sample testing
- Colposcopy
The associated data tables, interactive visualisation, appendices and quality statement are available on the main publication page:
*Invitations are first sent at age 24.5 years.
Publication resources
Report bulletin (this document)
- Presents a detailed summary of the findings from the 2023-2024 data collection.
- Further information on the data presented within this report is available in the additional publication resources outlined here.
Interactive dashboard
- The main report is accompanied by an interactive data dashboard. Data are presented in maps and charts. This allows comparison between areas as well as showing changes over time.
- The geographic breakdowns included in the dashboard are upper tier local authority, region and country.
http://bit.ly/Cervical_Stats_Dashboard
Data tables
- Contain all relevant statistics for 2023-2024.
- Available in Excel and csv formats.
Appendices
Further detail on topics including:
- Publication context
- Coverage definitions
- Changes to the programme
- Data collection
Quality statement
- Contextual information to aid understanding and presentation of the data including the methods used to compile the statistics and other background information that users may find useful.
- All resources are available from the publication page.
Regions
Data for the PHOF, VSA-15 and KC53 datasets are collected at Local Authority level, in this report they are assigned to 9 administrative geography regions. See 'Local and regional comparisons' section of the data quality statement for full details on LA region assignment.
Data for the KC61 ad KC65 datasets are collected at laboratory and colposcopy unit levels respectively. They are assigned to the 7 NHS England regions.
Last edited: 28 November 2024 9:31 am