https://github.com/bbc-data-unit/cervical-screening

Cervical screening: Millions missing smear tests
https://github.com/bbc-data-unit/cervical-screening

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Cervical screening: Millions missing smear tests

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/bbc-data-unit/cervical-screening
• Owner: BBC-Data-Unit
• Created: 2018-10-26T12:53:46.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2018-10-29T09:31:09.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-27T08:42:17.881Z (6 months ago)
• Topics: cervicalscreening, health, smeartests
• Language: R
• Homepage: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-45593583
• Size: 1.91 MB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Cervical screening: Millions missing smear tests

![](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/11D76/production/_103587037_londonscreen-nc.png)

In October 2018 we [reported that three million women across England have not had a smear test for at least three-and-a-half years](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-45593583), and that screening rates were at their lowest for two decades. Public Health England said it was "concerned" by the fall.

The data was extracted from Public Health England spreadsheets which used lookup tables. The data powering those tables was not easily accessible, so [an R script](https://github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/cervical-screening/blob/master/extracthiddendata.R) was used to extract that underlying data.

## Get the data 

* Public Health England: [Cervical screening: coverage and data](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cervical-screening-coverage-and-data)

* CSV: [Data and analysis](https://github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/cervical-screening/blob/master/cervicaldec2017.csv)

## Scripts

* [Download XLS spreadsheets and extract data](https://github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/cervical-screening/blob/master/extracthiddendata.R)

## Quotes and interviews

* Samme Allen, from Kingston

* Dr Laura Marlow, University College London

* Spokeswoman, clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in north west London 

* Dr Asha Kasliwal, president, the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare

* Robert Music, Jo's Cancer Trust

* Professor Anne Mackie, director of screening, Public Health England

## Visualisation

![](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/D31F/production/_103574045_datapic-cervicaldatapic-y44fx-nc.png)

* Map: Rates of cervical screening take-up in London (made using QGIS 2.6.1)

* Map: Cervical screening coverage across England (made using QGIS 2.6.1)

* Multiple bar chart: Lowest rates of screening for cervical cancer

* Infographic: Cervical cancer in England