Table 2 Proportion of people who were adequately screened by age, sex, IMD quintile, hub and screening episode

From: Impact of general practice endorsement on the social gradient in uptake in bowel cancer screening

 

Standard BCSP invitation+GPE

Standard BCSP invitation

 

% (n)

% (n)

All participants

58.2 (76 520)

57.5 (77 122)

Age (years)

60–64

55.9 (33 331)

54.8 (33 480)

65–69

61.0 (27 382)

60.5 (27 466)

70+

58.7 (15 807)

58.8 (16 176)

Sex

Female

60.7 (40 707)

60.2 (41 290)

Male

55.5 (35 813)

54.8 (35 832)

IMD quintile

1 (Least deprived)

65.2 (19 792)

66.0 (20 716)

2

63.1 (19 530)

62.6 (19 604)

3

59.3 (16 571)

58.0 (16 336)

4

53.0 (11 902)

51.5 (11 839)

5 (Most deprived)

44.0 (8433)

42.6 (8324)

Hub

BCS01

55.2 (19 869)

55.4 (19 150)

BCS02

62.7 (19 915)

60.3 (24 437)

BCS03

49.5 (5850)

48.2 (6385)

BCS04

59.8 (12 710)

58.9 (12 631)

BCS05

59.4 (18 176)

60.1 (14 519)

Screening episode

Incident

86.4 (59 380)

85.7 (60 119)

Prevalent first time invitees

51.4 (11 465)

49.4 (11 646)

Prevalent previous non-responders

14.0 (5675)

13.3 (5357)

  1. Abbreviations: BCSP=Bowel Cancer Screening Programme; GPE=GP endorsement; IMD=Index of Multiple Deprivation.
  2. A total of 1109 (547 Standard BCSP invitation+GPE and 562 Standard BCSP invitation) individuals had missing socioeconomic circumstances, 595 of these were adequately screened (292 Standard BCSP invitation+GPE and 303 Standard BCSP invitation).