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Cancer Services Profiles, 2025 annual update

Official statistics

Publication Date:
3 Mar 2026
Geographic Coverage:
England
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Summary

The interactive Cancer Services profile tool has been updated to include the latest financial year of data that are available, collated by the National Disease Registration Service (NDRS). For most indicators, for example on screening, diagnostics and urgent suspected cancer referrals, the latest data is now available for the financial year 2024 to 2025. For the cancer incidence indicator, the tool has been updated to include the 2023 to 2024 data.

Highlights

Background

The profiles have been designed to support commissioners and health professionals to assess the impact of cancer on their local population and make decisions about services.

These profiles present data by general practitioner (GP) practice, sub-Integrated Care Board (sub-ICB), Integrated Care Board (ICB) and at a national level on:

  • Cancer incidence and screening
  • Urgent suspected cancer (USC) referrals
  • Diagnostic services
  • Emergency presentations and admissions

Data are shown for the 6,168 GP practices that were active in the 2024 to 2025 financial year with a list size of 800 or more patients. It was assumed a practice was ‘active’ if there is  a record for it in the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) 2024-25.

Cervical screening coverage for those aged 25 to 49 or those aged 50 to 64 has not been updated in this release, due to a lack of updated data following a system transition.

Acknowledgements

This work uses data that has been provided by patients and collected by the NHS as part of their care and support. The data is collated, maintained and quality assured by the National Disease Registration Service, which is part of NHS England.

Key Facts

The latest national updates show that:

  • there were 352,015 new malignant cancer cases (excluding non-melanoma skin cancer) for patients identified as being registered to one of the included GP practices, for the financial year 2023 to 2024, which is 557 cases per 100,000 registered population.
  • for the financial year 2024 to 2025, the proportion of eligible people who had a screening test result recorded within the relevant screening interval (screening coverage) was 72.2% of 53 to 70 year olds for breast screening and 72.9% of 60 to 74 years olds for bowel cancer screening.
  • for diagnostic investigations, per 100,000 registered population, there were 1,837 lower GI endoscopy procedures and 1,445 upper GI endoscopy procedures performed in the financial year 2024 to 2025.
  • the rate of individuals diagnosed with cancer through an emergency route was 89 per 100,000 registered population in the financial year 2024 to 2025.
  • there were 4,899 urgent suspected cancer (USC) referrals per 100,000 registered population in the financial year 2024 to 2025.

Last edited: 5 March 2026 9:42 am