§ 36. Mr. Willie W. Hamiltonasked the Secretary of State for Social Services what plans he has for extending the scope of cervical cancer screening.
§ Mrs. CurrieThe Government are committed to cutting death rates from cervical cancer by improving the effectiveness of the screening programme for all women. In January this year all health authorities were required to give priority to improving their cervical cancer screening programmes, including implementing computerised call and recall systems within two years, and ensuring that laboratories avoid backlogs. All women who are or have been sexually active should be regularly screened for cervical cancer.
Our guidance to health authorities within this framework is currently under review.
§ Mr. Meacherasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will give the number of deaths due to cervical cancer by (a) regional health authority and (b) district health authority for any available year post 1979.
§ Mrs. CurrieFigures for 1980–84 inclusive are published in Table 4 of "Mortality Statistics: area, series DH5" numbers 7–11, copies of which may be found in the Library. Information for 1985 is shown in the table:
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Number of deaths with underlying cause of death as malignant neoplasm of cervix uteri (ICD(9) 180) by area of usual residence of woman: Wales, Regional Health Authority (RHA) and District Health Authority (DHA) 1985 England and Wales Area of usual residence Number of deaths Northern RHA 147 Hartlepool DHA 4 North Tees DHA 6 South Tees DHA 17 East Cumbria DHA 9 South Cumbria DHA 11 West Cumbria DHA 10 Darlington DHA 5 Durham DHA 11 North West Durham DHA 1 South West Durham DHA 3 Northumberland DHA 19 Gateshead DHA 10 Newcastle DHA 12 North Tyneside DHA 10 South Tyneside DHA 7 Sunderland DHA 12 Yorkshire RHA 177
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Area of usual residence Number of deaths Hull DHA 25 East Yorkshire DHA 10 Grimsby DHA 9 Scunthorpe DHA 11 Northallerton DHA 6 York DHA 10 Scarborough DHA 2 Harrogate DHA 6 Bradford DHA 15 Airedale DHA 7 Calderdale DHA 11 Huddersfield DHA 7 Dewsbury DHA 10 Leeds Western DHA 12 Leeds Eastern DHA 17 Wakefield DHA 11 Pontefract DHA 8 Trent RHA 191 North Derbyshire DHA 18 Southern Derbyshire DHA 17 Leicestershire DHA 34 North Lincolnshire DHA 16 South Lincolnshire DHA 15 Bassetlaw DHA — Central Nottinghamshire DHA 5 Nottingham DHA 25 Barnsley DHA 7 Doncaster DHA 10 Rotherham DHA 14 Sheffield DHA 30 East Anglian RHA 59 Cambridge DHA 8 Peterborough DHA 5 West Suffolk DHA 4 East Suffolk DHA 13 Norwich DHA 18 Great Yarmouth and Waveney DHA 5 West Norfolk and Wisbech DHA 3 Huntingdon DHA 3 North West Thames RHA 91 North Bedfordshire DHA 8 South Bedfordshire DHA 13 North Hertfordshire DHA 4 East Hertfordshire DHA 8 North West Hertfordshire DHA 9 South West Hertfordshire DHA 6 Barnet DHA 6 Harrow DHA 2 Hillingdon DHA 4 Hounslow and Spelthorne DHA 5 Ealing DHA 7 Brent DHA 7 Paddington and North Kensington DHA 2 Riverside DHA from 1.4.85 10 North East Thames RHA 130 Basildon and Thurrock DHA 7 Mid Essex DHA 5 North East Essex DHA 11 West Essex DHA 16 Southend DHA 9 Barking, Havering and Brentwood DHA 12 Hampstead DHA 6 Bloomsbury DHA 8 Islington DHA 8 City and Hackney DHA 5 Newham DHA 6 Tower Hamlets DHA 6 Enfield DHA 8 Haringey DHA 7 Redbridge DHA 6 Waltham Forest DHA 10
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Area of usual residence Number of deaths South East Thames RHA 123 Brighton DHA 11 Eastbourne DHA 10 Hastings DHA 12 South East Kent DHA l5 Canterbury and Thanet DHA 7 Dartford and Gravesham DHA 10 Maidstone DHA 5 Medway DHA 7 Tunbridge Wells DHA 5 Bexley DHA 7 Greenwich DHA 7 Bromley DHA 5 West Lambeth DHA 4 Camberwell DHA 10 Lewisham and North Southwark DHA 8 South West Thames RHA 86 North West Surrey DHA 5 West Surrey and North East Hampshire DHA 10 South West Surrey DHA 7 Mid Surrey DHA 4 East Surrey DHA 3 Chichester DHA 8 Mid Downs DHA 6 Worthing DHA 7 Croydon DHA 8 Kingston and Esher DHA 5 Richmond, Twickenham and Roehampton DHA 9 Wandsworth DHA 4 Merton and Sutton DHA 10 Wessex RHA 92 East Dorset DHA 22 West Dorset DHA 7 Portsmouth and South East Hampshire DHA 16 Southampton and South West Hampshire DHA 14 Winchester DHA 5 Basingstoke and North Hampshire DHA 3 Salisbury DHA 4 Swindon DHA 8 Bath DHA 8 Isle of Wight DHA 5 Oxford RHA 73 East Berkshire DHA 14 West Berkshire DHA 18 Aylesbury Vale DHA 1 Wycombe DHA 4 Milton Keynes DHA 1 Kettering DHA 10 Northampton DHA 13 Oxfordshire DHA 12 South Western RHA 129 Bristol and Weston DHA 16 Frenchay DHA 13 Southmead DHA 9 Cornwall and Isles of Scilly DHA 15 Exeter DHA 14 North Devon DHA 10 Plymouth DHA 10 Torbay DHA 13 Cheltenham and District DHA 7 Gloucester DHA 11 Somerset DHA 11 West Midlands RHA 185
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Area of usual residence Number of deaths Bromsgrove and Redditch DHA 1 Herefordshire DHA 6 Kidderminster and District DHA 3 Worcester and District DHA — Shropshire DHA 17 Mid Staffordshire DHA 12 North Staffordshire DHA 20 South East Staffordshire DHA 6 Rugby DHA 1 North Warwickshire DHA 9 South Warwickshire DHA 8 Central Birmingham DHA 5 East Birmingham DHA 13 North Birmingham DHA 7 South Birmingham DHA 8 West Birmingham DHA 9 Coventry DHA 5 Dudley DHA 13 Sandwell DHA 12 Solihull DHA 4 Walsall DHA 15 Wolverhampton DHA 11 Mersey RHA 148 Chester DHA 9 Crewe DHA 9 Halton DHA 8 Macclesfield DHA 12 Warrington DHA 15 Liverpool DHA 31 St. Helens and Knowsley DHA 30 Southport and Formby DHA 8 South Sefton DHA 8 Wirral DHA 18 North Western RHA 183 Lancaster DHA 5 Blackpool, Wyre and Fylde DHA 17 Preston DHA 10 Blackburn, Hyndburn and Ribble Valley DHA 19 Burnley, Pendle and Rossendale DHA 8 West Lancashire DHA 5 Chorley and South Ribble DHA 10 Bolton DHA 11 Bury DHA 6 North Manchester DHA 9 Central Manchester DHA — South Manchester DHA 7 Oldham DHA 10 Rochdale DHA 11 Salford DHA 12 Stockport DHA 12 Tameside and Glossop DHA 9 Trafford DHA 8 Wigan DHA 14 Wales 139 Clwyd DHA 16 East Dyfed DHA 19 Pembrokeshire DHA 5 Gwent DHA 14 Gwynedd DHA 13 Mid Glamorgan DHA 31 Powys DHA 6 South Glamorgan DHA 19 West Glamorgan DHA 16
§ Mr. Meacherasked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will place the regional and district health authority reports on cervical cancer in the Library.
§ Mrs. CurrieRegional health authorities' "outturn reports" to the Department for 1985–86, which in turn are based on district health authority reports, cover a wide range of issues and are not intended for publication. The latest available information on the position on cervical cancer as at 31 March 1986, based on the information in regions, outturn reports, has already been published in my previous replies to the hon. Member and to the hon. Member for Holborn and St. Pancras (Mr. Dobson).