Screening

Screening aims to reduce illness and deaths from certain preventable diseases. The underlying concept of screening is that early detection of risk factors or early disease is beneficial for the clinical or public health outcome.

Data and reports

We have produced reports on breast screening (PDF, 570.5 KB) and cervical screening (PDF, 348.0 KB)

Library services

The Public Health and Social Care Library can provide access to library and knowledge services, including books and journal articles relating to screening. We can also produce bespoke literature searches.

Requests

If you can't find what you were looking for, we complete over 200 ad-hoc requests for analysis each year. Request further analysis or a literature search or contact us.

External resources

A number of organisations produce screening statistics both at national and local level.

Public Health England publish KPIs for all NHS screening programmes. The Public Health England Public Health Profiles also contain key screening statistics, including data on cancer screening, Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm screening, infectious diseases in pregnancy screening, sickle cell and thalassaemia screening, newborn bloodspot and hearing screening, and retinal screening for diabetes patients.
NHS Digital produce reports on the Breast Screening Programme and the Cervical Screening Programme.

Screening

Our resources

Data and reports

Library services

Requests

External resources