FoI Number
2023-394
Subject
Cervical Screening
Date Received
04/10/2023
Request and Response
  1. Please state the average wait for cervical screening (smear) test results each year from 2018/19 to 2023/24.
  2. Please state the longest time the person waited for their cervical screening results during the same timeframe.
  3. Where a person’s results are considered inconclusive or abnormal, how long is the average follow up appointment per year?

Cervical Screening is delivered via NHS Grampian therefore all data will be held there. Cervical Screening data is available from Public Health Scotland here:

https://publichealthscotland.scot/publications/scottish-cervical-screening-programme-statistics/scottish-cervical-screening-programme-statistics-annual-update-to-31-march-2022/