England screening uptake rates The average screening uptake rate in England is 58% In some cases it is as low as 33% 44% of s in England are below the national average Seven out of ten of the worst areas in England are in London Screening uptake rate by NHS region NHS Region Clinical Commissioning Group () Bowel Cancer Screening Programme uptake rate (%) Central Midlands NHS region NHS Bedfordshire 59.1 NHS Corby 54.0 NHS East And North Hertfordshire 60.5 NHS East Leicestershire And Rutland 64.0 NHS Herts Valleys 59.0 NHS Leicester City 44.9 NHS Lincolnshire East 57.9 NHS Lincolnshire West 60.8 NHS Luton 48.4 NHS Milton Keynes 54.8 NHS Nene 59.7 NHS South Lincolnshire 62.1 NHS South West Lincolnshire 60.7 NHS West Leicestershire 62.5 Cheshire and Merseyside NHS region NHS Eastern Cheshire 61.6 NHS Halton 50.1 NHS Knowsley 47.6 NHS Liverpool 48.8 NHS South Cheshire 59.4 NHS South Sefton 51.7 NHS Southport And Formby 58.4 NHS St Helens 55.2 NHS Vale Royal 58.0 NHS Warrington 56.2 NHS West Cheshire 60.0 NHS Wirral 54.5 Cumbria and North East NHS region NHS Cumbria 64.4 NHS Darlington 58.0 NHS Durham Dales, Easington And Sedgefield 59.9 1
NHS Hartlepool And Stockton-On-Tees 56.4 NHS North Durham 61.5 NHS North Tyneside 58.1 NHS Northumberland 63.5 NHS South Tees 55.1 NHS South Tyneside 55.9 NHS Sunderland 55.9 East NHS region NHS Basildon And Brentwood 58.5 NHS Cambridgeshire and Peterborough 58.2 NHS Castle Point And Rochford 60.4 NHS Great Yarmouth And Waveney 60.2 NHS Ipswich And East Suffolk 60.7 NHS Mid Essex 61.7 NHS North East Essex 60.0 NHS North Norfolk 64.5 NHS Norwich 60.7 NHS South Norfolk 65.7 NHS Southend 52.2 NHS Thurrock 54.4 NHS West Essex 58.3 NHS West Norfolk 59.8 NHS West Suffolk 61.9 Lancashire and Greater Manchester NHS region NHS Blackburn With Darwen 51.4 NHS Blackpool 52.0 NHS Bolton 55.0 NHS Bury 56.9 NHS Central Manchester 39.2 NHS Chorley And South Ribble 59.4 NHS East Lancashire 57.9 NHS Fylde & Wyre 62.1 NHS Greater Preston 59.0 NHS Heywood, Middleton And Rochdale 54.2 NHS Lancashire North 60.7 NHS North Manchester 43.4 NHS Oldham 54.2 NHS Salford 52.0 NHS South Manchester 44.4 NHS Stockport 55.2 NHS Tameside And Glossop 52.6 NHS Trafford 55.9 NHS West Lancashire 57.0 NHS Wigan Borough 57.1 2
London NHS region NHS Barking And Dagenham 43.1 NHS Barnet 48.3 NHS Bexley 55.3 NHS Brent 44.4 NHS Bromley 56.9 NHS Camden 46.5 NHS Central London (Westminster) 39.2 NHS City And Hackney 41.0 NHS Croydon 49.4 NHS Ealing 44.8 NHS Enfield 52.7 NHS Greenwich 46.7 NHS Hammersmith And Fulham 39.4 NHS Haringey 48.1 NHS Harrow 50.6 NHS Havering 55.4 NHS Hillingdon 50.1 NHS Hounslow 44.6 NHS Islington 47.0 NHS Kingston 54.9 NHS Lambeth 43.3 NHS Lewisham 45.3 NHS Merton 49.8 NHS Newham 39.7 NHS Redbridge 47.6 NHS Richmond 55.4 NHS Southwark 42.6 NHS Sutton 55.7 NHS Tower Hamlets 39.1 NHS Waltham Forest 47.3 NHS Wandsworth 48.2 NHS West London (K&C & QPP) 37.1 North Midlands NHS region NHS Cannock Chase 57.6 NHS East Staffordshire 57.5 NHS Erewash 62.1 NHS Hardwick 58.3 NHS Mansfield And Ashfield 59.5 NHS Newark & Sherwood 64.0 NHS North Derbyshire 62.0 NHS North Staffordshire 63.3 NHS Nottingham City 53.5 NHS Nottingham North And East 63.4 NHS Nottingham West 64.2 NHS Rushcliffe 67.8 3
NHS Shropshire 61.7 NHS South East Staffs And Seisdon 61.5 Peninsular NHS Southern Derbyshire 60.0 NHS Stafford And Surrounds 62.4 NHS Stoke On Trent 55.5 NHS Telford And Wrekin 56.2 South Central NHS region NHS Aylesbury Vale 59.0 NHS Bath And North East Somerset 60.4 NHS Bracknell And Ascot 58.0 NHS Chiltern 58.0 NHS Gloucestershire 62.7 NHS Newbury And District 61.3 NHS North & West Reading 61.8 NHS Oxfordshire 58.3 NHS Slough 40.2 NHS South Reading 49.2 NHS Swindon 54.5 NHS Wiltshire 62.6 NHS Windsor, Ascot And Maidenhead 55.8 NHS Wokingham 66.2 South East NHS region NHS Ashford 60.7 NHS Brighton And Hove 55.9 NHS Canterbury And Coastal 59.8 NHS Coastal West Sussex 62.4 NHS Crawley 55.2 NHS Dartford, Gravesham And Swanley 55.9 NHS East Surrey 58.5 NHS Eastbourne, Hailsham And Seaford 59.3 NHS Guildford And Waverley 63.2 NHS Hastings And Rother 57.8 NHS High Weald Lewes Havens 62.0 NHS Horsham And Mid Sussex 64.1 NHS Medway 55.8 NHS North West Surrey 57.2 NHS South Kent Coast 59.7 NHS Surrey Downs 60.1 NHS Surrey Heath 61.5 NHS Swale 55.4 NHS Thanet 56.9 NHS West Kent 60.6 South West NHS region NHS Bristol 54.6 4
NHS Kernow 60.4 NHS North Somerset 62.1 NHS Northern, Eastern And Western 62.0 Devon NHS Somerset 62.9 NHS South Devon And Torbay 62.9 NHS South Gloucestershire 62.4 Wessex NHS region NHS Dorset 64.1 NHS Fareham And Gosport 65.2 NHS Isle Of Wight 58.9 NHS North East Hampshire And Farnham 63.2 NHS North Hampshire 62.4 NHS Portsmouth 56.8 NHS South Eastern Hampshire 63.3 NHS Southampton 55.0 NHS West Hampshire 66.5 West Midlands NHS region NHS Birmingham Crosscity 49.5 NHS Birmingham South And Central 46.0 NHS Coventry And Rugby 57.8 NHS Dudley 58.1 NHS Herefordshire 61.6 NHS Redditch And Bromsgrove 58.6 NHS Sandwell And West Birmingham 46.3 NHS Solihull 59.8 NHS South Warwickshire 63.7 NHS South Worcestershire 61.7 NHS Walsall 52.4 NHS Warwickshire North 59.9 NHS Wolverhampton 50.8 NHS Wyre Forest 59.8 Yorkshire and Humber NHS region NHS Airedale, Wharfdale And Craven 63.3 NHS Barnsley 59.1 NHS Bassetlaw 57.6 NHS Bradford City 32.7 NHS Bradford Districts 54.0 NHS Calderdale 59.2 NHS Doncaster 60.8 NHS East Riding Of Yorkshire 62.8 NHS Greater Huddersfield 62.1 NHS Hambleton, Richmondshire And 65.3 Whitby NHS Harrogate And Rural District 62.5 NHS Hull 54.7 5
NHS Leeds North 58.4 NHS Leeds South And East 55.4 NHS Leeds West 57.8 NHS North East Lincolnshire 58.8 NHS North Kirklees 54.0 NHS North Lincolnshire 60.8 NHS Rotherham 59.4 NHS Scarborough And Ryedale 62.2 NHS Sheffield 59.2 NHS Vale Of York 64.0 NHS Wakefield 57.1 2014-2015 Source: Public Health England Interested in finding out more? Visit us at bowelcanceruk.org.uk Call us on 020 7940 1760 Join in the conversation @Bowel_Cancer_UK /charitybcuk We are determined to save lives from bowel cancer but we can t do this without you. Support vital research and lifesaving work to stop bowel cancer. Visit bowelcancer.org.uk/donate Bowel Cancer UK, Wilcox House, 140-148 Borough High Street, London SE1 1LB Registered charity number 1071038 (England & Wales) and SC040914 (Scotland) and a company limited by guarantee number 3409832 6