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Shared learning: mask helps improve KPI performance for fetal anomaly screening

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Background All eligible pregnant women in England are offered screening for Down’s, Edwards’ and Patau’s syndromes. Staff must fully complete the laboratory request form with the correct information to enable the screening laboratory to process the sample without delay and …

What’s new and coming up with NHS Newborn and Infant Physical Examination e-Learning?

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...the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) or General Medical Council (GMC). Unfortunately, this ruled out access for many direct entry student midwives. We therefore worked with the PHE safeguarding team...

Primary care population screening update, spring 2016

...of bowel cancer screening letters. I'm Dr Anne Mackie, Director of Screening at Public Health England (PHE). This is my second biannual letter to GPs in England (the first was...

Quarter 3 KPI screening data published

We have published the key performance indicator (KPI) non-cancer screening data for the third quarter of 2015 to 2016 (1 October 2015 to 31 December 2015). KPIs are used to measure how the NHS screening programmes are performing and aim to give a …

Diabetic eye screening software: understanding the inter-grader agreement tables and Cohen’s kappa

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Woman has her eyes looked at during her screening appointment.

Expert graders are central to the success of the NHS Diabetic Eye Screening (DES) Programme. They study the digital photographs taken at screening clinics to assess if patients need to remain in routine screening or be referred for closer monitoring …