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Date set for 2018 AAA screening national networking day

Posted by: Lisa Summers, Posted on: 4 December 2017 - Categories: NHS Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Screening Programme
2 women and 1 man in a healthcare setting.

...service (SQAS) regional team staff and public health commissioners. At next year’s event, we will feed back on the development and launch of the national AAA screening inequalities toolkit, which...

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What PHE Screening blogged about in November 2017

Posted by: Fabien Waldheim, Posted on: 1 December 2017 - Categories: General information

...way of identifying babies who may have missed NBS screening for 9 rare but serious conditions. NHS Breast Screening Programme 6 November – Experts by experience are central to development...

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Hundreds have already attended new NIPT training

Posted by: Liane Powell, Posted on: 30 November 2017 - Categories: NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme

The NHS Fetal Anomaly Screening Programme is running a series of training events to help healthcare professionals support women in making personalised informed choices about screening for Down’s, Edwards’ and Patau’s syndromes.

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Have your say on the future of the screening quality assurance service

Posted by: Sue Cohen, Posted on: 29 November 2017 - Categories: Screening Quality Assurance Service

The screening quality assurance service is launching a period of informal consultation on a revised national operating model.

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Screening KPIs: quarter 1 2017 to 2018 data and other updates

Posted by: Lizzie Tempest, Posted on: 28 November 2017 - Categories: General information

We have now published new and improved key performance indicator (KPI) data publications. The KPIs are used to measure how the NHS screening programmes are performing and aim to give a high level overview of programme quality.

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Exciting opportunity to chair new screening quality assurance advisory committee

Posted by: Mike Harris, Posted on: 27 November 2017 - Categories: General information, Screening Quality Assurance Service

Do you have what it takes to chair PHE’s new Screening Quality Assurance Advisory Committee?

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Our latest screening report highlights successes and areas for improvement

Posted by: Professor Anne Mackie, Posted on: 24 November 2017 - Categories: General information

...with 9 rare but serious conditions get the essential treatment they need as soon as possible after birth We continuously seek to improve the safety, quality and health benefits our...

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Videos worth watching: Dr Henrietta Campbell

Posted by: Fabien Waldheim, Posted on: 23 November 2017 - Categories: General information, UK National Screening Committee

Watch Dr Henrietta Campbell, Chair of the UK NSC from 1998 to 2006, talk about the experiences and challenges she has faced while working in screening.

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Breast screening: we want your views on new mammography apprenticeship

Posted by: Jacquie Jenkins, Posted on: 22 November 2017 - Categories: NHS Breast Screening Programme

PHE is involved in an initiative to develop an apprenticeship for the new role of ‘associate mammographer’, which we hope will encourage many to enter the profession and address the national shortage of mammographers.

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Videos worth watching: Sir Muir Gray (part 2)

Posted by: Fabien Waldheim, Posted on: 21 November 2017 - Categories: General information

...with screening but with other innovations, we always have the patients, the people in the room, and we ask them how did they see the relative worth of this compared...

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