Skip to main content
GOV.UK
Blog: PHE Screening
Organisations:
Public Health England

Ensuring equity of access to screening tests

Posted by: Lisa Summers, Posted on: 30 September 2015 - Categories: NHS Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Screening Programme

...and Justice Team, the National Offender Management Service, NHS England and other PHE colleagues to establish an interim process for screening in prisons ahead of the introduction of a new...

Read more of Ensuring equity of access to screening tests

Got a screening question?

Posted by: Andrianna Davis, Posted on: 29 September 2015 - Categories: General information

If you want to know something about the national NHS Screening Programmes, the screening helpdesk is there to help. Enquiries to the helpdesk have increased by almost half, from 971 to 1,440 in the last year - especially since taking …

Read more of Got a screening question?

Things are changing around hear

Posted by: Jane Hibbert, Posted on: 25 September 2015 - Categories: NHS Newborn Hearing Screening Programme

...their families can be offered the right support, treatment and information at the very earliest stage, helping to ensure they can reach their full educational and social potential. Significant changes...

Read more of Things are changing around hear

Consultation reminder!

Posted by: Christine Cavanagh, Posted on: 23 September 2015 - Categories: NHS Newborn Blood Spot Screening Programme

Just a reminder that the consultation on a revised version of the guidelines for newborn blood spot sampling closes on 29 September. These guidelines, which were last updated in 2012,...

Read more of Consultation reminder!

Making the grade

Posted by: Lynne Lacey, Posted on: 21 September 2015 - Categories: NHS Diabetic Eye Screening Programme

...in detecting outliers do not incorrectly label good graders as poor by chance because of small numbers Programmes will be able to download the reports from TAT and export them...

Read more of Making the grade

Improving outcomes for babies with genetic disorders

Posted by: Annette McHugh, Cathy Coppinger and Christine Cavanagh, Posted on: 18 September 2015 - Categories: NHS Newborn Blood Spot Screening Programme, NHS Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Screening Programme

...for Genes Day. To take part you simply have to wear denim to work or school and make a donation for the chance to do so. PHE screening blog The...

Read more of Improving outcomes for babies with genetic disorders

AAA programme approaches millionth man milestone

Posted by: Lisa Summers, Posted on: 16 September 2015 - Categories: NHS Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Screening Programme

...cause of death in cases where no cause has been confirmed. We appreciate that this might mean a lot of work chasing post mortem results, death certificates and GP or...

Read more of AAA programme approaches millionth man milestone - 1 comment

Cancer screening programmes web content gets a new home

Posted by: TJ Day, Posted on: 14 September 2015 - Categories: NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme, NHS Breast Screening Programme, NHS Cervical Screening Programme

...the NHS Choices website. The change to using NHS Choices and GOV.UK is part of the government’s digital strategy. This aims to reduce the number of government websites so that...

Read more of Cancer screening programmes web content gets a new home

New virtual view learning for ultrasonographers  

Posted by: Annette McHugh, Posted on: 11 September 2015 - Categories: NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme

...fetal cardiac protocol earlier this year. And it brings to five the number of views ultrasonographers have to take of the heart of the fetus in every pregnant woman at...

Read more of New virtual view learning for ultrasonographers  

Making screening information accessible to all

Posted by: Denise Dixon, Posted on: 4 September 2015 - Categories: General information

...have now turned this booklet into two easy read publications that can be downloaded from GOV.UK. Screening test when you are pregnant Screening tests for your new baby The easy...

Read more of Making screening information accessible to all
  • Page 1
  • Page 2
Next page

Related content and links

The PHE Screening team

Public Health England (PHE) existed to protect and improve the nation’s health and wellbeing, and reduce health inequalities. It closed on 30 September 2021 and this blog is no longer updated.

Find out more about the implications for health screening in our Changes ahead for the national screening system blog article.

If you want to stay in touch with screening evidence and policy news, you can subscribe to the UK National Screening Committee blog.

Categories

Useful links

  • Screening helpdesk
  • Introduction to population screening e-learning
  • Professional information (GOV.UK)
  • Public information (NHS.UK)
  • Simple PDF leaflets for printing
  • Screening QA Service (SQAS)
  • Education and training
  • UK National Screening Committee

Blog tags

accessible information (116) Annual call (2) annual reports and updates (42) antenatal screening (165) artificial intelligence (4) blog news (20) call and recall (1) consultations (20) Coronavirus recovery (6) CPD and qualifications (74) data and KPIs (69) diagnostic testing (10) digital invitations (40) e-learning (31) easy read information (2) events and courses (77) failsafe (20) FIT (7) helpdesk (8) HPV (24) incidents (9) inequalities (97) information governance (6) IT systems (41) laboratories (32) monthly roundup (36) newborn screening (157) NIPT (19) primary care (15) public information and informed choice (148) quality improvement (98) research and audit (40) SCID (8) screening benefits and risks (38) shared learning (112) standards (47) STFYAYB (2) views from the front line (68) vision screening (5) workforce (46)

Comments and moderation

Read our guidelines

Recent Posts

  • Changes ahead for the national screening system
  • What we blogged about in August and September 2021
  • New resources to help improve quality of samples taken in NHS newborn blood spot screening
  • Pinging in the changes – update on text messaging in screening
  • Updated national FASP screening standards published

Recent Comments

  • Stephanie on Not FIT for the bin – the importance of bowel cancer screening
  • lisaleano on Rolling out the new bowel cancer test kit via video
  • Toshiro on Rolling out the new bowel cancer test kit via video
  • lisaleano on Rolling out the new bowel cancer test kit via video
  • Toshiro on Rolling out the new bowel cancer test kit via video

Archives

  • September 2021
  • August 2021
  • July 2021
  • June 2021
  • May 2021
  • April 2021
  • March 2021
  • February 2021
  • January 2021
  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • October 2020
  • September 2020
  • August 2020
  • July 2020
  • June 2020
  • April 2020
  • March 2020
  • February 2020
  • January 2020
  • December 2019
  • November 2019
  • October 2019
  • September 2019
  • August 2019
  • July 2019
  • June 2019
  • May 2019
  • April 2019
  • March 2019
  • February 2019
  • January 2019
  • December 2018
  • November 2018
  • October 2018
  • September 2018
  • August 2018
  • July 2018
  • June 2018
  • May 2018
  • April 2018
  • March 2018
  • February 2018
  • January 2018
  • December 2017
  • November 2017
  • October 2017
  • September 2017
  • August 2017
  • July 2017
  • June 2017
  • April 2017
  • March 2017
  • February 2017
  • January 2017
  • December 2016
  • November 2016
  • October 2016
  • September 2016
  • August 2016
  • July 2016
  • June 2016
  • May 2016
  • April 2016
  • March 2016
  • February 2016
  • January 2016
  • December 2015
  • November 2015
  • October 2015
  • September 2015
  • August 2015
  • July 2015
  • June 2015

Categories

  • General information
  • NHS Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Screening Programme
  • NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme
  • NHS Breast Screening Programme
  • NHS Cervical Screening Programme
  • NHS Diabetic Eye Screening Programme
  • NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme
  • NHS Infectious Diseases in Pregnancy Screening Programme
  • NHS Newborn and Infant Physical Examination
  • NHS Newborn Blood Spot Screening Programme
  • NHS Newborn Hearing Screening Programme
  • NHS Sickle Cell and Thalassaemia Screening Programme
  • Prostate cancer risk management
  • School entry screening
  • Screening Quality Assurance Service
  • UK National Screening Committee

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org

Recent posts

  • Changes ahead for the national screening system 30 September 2021
  • What we blogged about in August and September 2021 30 September 2021
  • New resources to help improve quality of samples taken in NHS newborn blood spot screening 30 September 2021

Follow us on social media

  • PHE Screening on Twitter

Useful links

  • All GOV.UK blogs
  • All GOV.UK blog posts
  • GOV.UK
  • All departments
  • Accessibility statement
  • Cookies
All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0, except where otherwise stated
© Crown copyright