Department of Health and Social Care written question – answered on 18 October 2021.
Jim Shannon
Shadow DUP Spokesperson (Human Rights), Shadow DUP Spokesperson (Health)
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 27 July 2021 to Question 36638 on Lung Cancer: Diagnosis, how many people have been invited for screening as part of the lung health check programme; and how many and what proportion of those people invited have attended a lung cancer screening appointment across each of the 19 locations since the programme's launch.
Jim Shannon
Shadow DUP Spokesperson (Human Rights), Shadow DUP Spokesperson (Health)
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, pursuant to the Answer of 27 July 2021 to Question 36638, on Lung Cancer: Diagnosis, how many people have (a) been invited for screening as part of the lung health check programme and (b) attended a lung cancer screening appointment in each of the 19 programme locations since the launch of that programme.
Maria Caulfield
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary for Health and Social Care
As of July 2021, the latest available data, the National Health Service has invited 125,680 people for targeted lung health checks and performed more than 38,000 lung health checks.
The following table shows the number of people invited for a lung health check within each of the 18 clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) where data is available and the number of health checks carried out following the invitation.
Number of invitations July 2021 | Number of lung health checks July 2021 | |
NHS Knowsley CCG | N/A | N/A |
NHS Luton CCG | 9,124 | 2,581 |
NHS Hull CCG | 9,102 | 3,255 |
NHS Southampton CCG | 10,929 | 3,338 |
NHS Thurrock CCG | 8,464 | 2,060 |
NHS Doncaster CCG | 9,318 | 2,431 |
NHS Blackburn with Darwen CCG | 1,181 | 44 |
NHS Corby CCG | 1,599 | 703 |
NHS Mansfield and Ashfield CCG | 1,270 | 677 |
NHS Newcastle Gateshead CCG | 554 | 512 |
NHS Salford CCG | 11,890 | 5,668 |
NHS Manchester CCG | 36,571 | 9,111 |
NHS Hammersmith and Fulham CCG | 4,148 | 1,193 |
NHS Hillingdon CCG | 5,452 | 1,606 |
NHS Sutton CCG | 3,041 | 506 |
NHS Stoke CCG | 8,989 | 3,714 |
NHS Liverpool CCG | N/A | N/A |
NHS Coventry and Warwickshire CCG | 4,048 | 964 |
Total | 125,680 | 38,363 |
Note:
* Data for Liverpool CCG and Knowsley CCG are still being validated.
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