Screening and immunisation : Department of Health

Screening and immunisation

Last modified date:

8 February 2007

Statistics on breast and cervical screening, and on NHS immunisation.

Breast screening programme, England

Summary information including statistics on women screened by age, take-up rates, and type of cancers detected.

Cervical screening programme, England

This bulletin summarises information from the computerised call and recall system for cervical screening from pathology laboratories on cervical cytology in England, including some information about earlier years. Results are available by region and pathology laboratory. Note that this information is now collected and published by the Information Centre for health and social care (IC). All data published from October 2005 onwards will be published on the IC website

NHS immunisation statistics, England

The statistical bulletin contains data on the number of immunisations against diphtheria, tetanus, polio, pertussis (whooping cough), haemophilus, influenza b, measles and tuberculin skin tests by age. Results are available by region, NHS Trust and health authority.